EDWARD T. AMBROSE

Main Cemetery -- Area J 
Lot 178 -- Eastside

Edward Ambrose was born in 1843 in Duchess County, NY. His father had been born in England and his mother in Massachusetts. There were 5 boys and 3 girls in the family and when they moved to Rochester, they were engaged in farming.

Edward wished to serve the Union and so enlisted in NY 108, company G. as did three of his brothers. While in heavy combat in 1864, fighting alongside his brother, Robert was killed.

After a hard day’s fighting, Edward was captured and taken to Libby prison in Richmond, VA but was reassigned to Salisbury Prison in NC. He escaped for a very short time but was chased by blood hounds and guards and recaptured and received harsher treatment as a result. Volunteering to fetch firewood, Edward again escaped and this time was not recaptured.

After retiring from the army, Edward lived with his wife, Elizabeth and applied for a pension from NY State. For 21 years he worked on the railroad but later became a lock tender on the Erie Canal. He had suffered from his harsh treatment in the Confederate prisons, and died from illness brought on by that on October 24, 1906.

Edward is considered a valiant warrior of the Civil War and is buried in this place along with 80 other veterans of the conflict.