Sergeant Edward S Donnelly
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Saturday, 3 July 1869, page 7
NEWPORT
SUICIDE AT THE NEWPORT BARRACKS-Sergeant Edward S Donnelly, who
has been stationed at the Newport Barracks for nearly three years, and whose
time would have expired on the 11th of the present month, committed suicide on
Thursday, by shooting himself through the head with a pistol.
The cause of his committed the rash act was grief on account of the death of a sister, the news of which he received by letter on the day of his death.
Deceased served during the war as a Major of volunteers. He was twenty-eight years of age and his parents resided in Ottawa, Canada. He was buried yesterday morning with military honors.