Class of 1861
F Company, 81st Pennsylvania Regiment
On the morning of December 13, the Union attacked Fredericksburg. Aydelott was leading Company F and encounrered a terrific storm of fire, when a ball shattered his right arm. With sword in his left hand he continued to advance until struck by a shell, which broke his leg in three places and fractured a number of ribs. He fell bleeding from nine wounds, and died January 5, 1863, in Washington, D. C., aged nineteen years.
