Edwin Janes Barden (Ned) enlisted in the Union army at 26 years old, with the locally formed 7th Connecticut Infantry Regiment Volunteers, and was assigned to Company G, from his hometown of Canaan, Connecticut. The U.S. Army Regiment was formed in New Haven Connecticut on 13 September 1861 and consisted of 1,018 officers and men. The next day they began a movement to Washington, DC where it was brigaded with the Sixth Connecticut and Third...