Ezra Chamberlin was reported "killed" at the battle of Fort Wagner on Morris Island at the entrance to Charleston Harbor on July 11, 1863.  His body was never returned to his hometown in Killingly for burial.  Probably his death was confirmed to his grieving parents by local boys returning home from the battle.

His father, Elisha Chamberlin, died in Killingly in Nov. 1880 and in his obituary in the Windham County Transcript of 25 Nov. 1880 it confirms that Ezra did not return home.  I quote “The loss of a brave son, who was a member of the 7th C. V., in the attack on Fort Wagner, during the rebellion, his body never having been recovered.”   

There is a marker with his name on it in the Old Westfield Cemetery, Danielson, Conn., but he is not buried there.  He probably was buried initially on Morris Island in a mass grave, then moved to the U.S. military cemetery in Beaufort after the war.