page_title: Edwin H. Stoughton
section_title: Later life and death
hierarchical_section_title: Edwin H. Stoughton / Later life and death
caption_attribution_description: English: Edwin H. Stoughton (Union Army Brigadier General)
context_page_description: Edwin Henry Stoughton, was appointed a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War but his appointment expired after it was not confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Four days later, on March 8, 1863, he was captured by Confederate partisan ranger John S. Mosby while asleep at his headquarters in the Virginia village of Fairfax Court House. The incident became well known and Stoughton became an object of ridicule as a result. He was included in a prisoner exchange two months later, but resigned his commission after he was not reappointed as a brigadier general.
context_section_description: Stoughton was an attorney in New York City after the war, practicing with his father and with his uncle, Edwin W. Stoughton. He died of tuberculosis in Dorchester, Massachusetts on December 25, 1868. He is buried in Immanuel Cemetery, Rockingham, Vermont. The Grand Army of the Republic post in Bellows Falls, Vermont was named for him.
caption: Stoughton as depicted in 1911's Prison Life in the Old Capitol and Reminiscences of the Civil War.
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