Edward Ferrero was a dance instructor, choreographer, and ballroom operator who served in the army as a colonel under the command of Maj. Gen. Jonathan Jackson and later on promoted to brigadier general on September 19, 1862.
Transferred northward with his brigade to Virginia in the summer of 1862, he served in the army of Maj. Gen. John Pope during the Northern Virginia Campaign, including the Second Battle of Bull Run. 
