Edwin M. Gardner (1845–1935) was an American Confederate veteran and painter.
Gardner was born on October 12, 1845, in Giles County, Tennessee.
[1] During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he served in the Confederate States Army under General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
[1] Gardner started his career as an art teacher at a female academy in Aberdeen, Mississippi, followed by Mary Sharp College, a female academy in Winchester, Tennessee.
[2] One of his students, Cornelius Hankins, became a prominent painter in the South.