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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles F. Langford

(? - 1864)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861 in Gaudalupe County.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in the leg and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was briefly at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 10 to 11 October, then sent on to Fort McHenry in Baltimore for exchange. He was paroled and sent to Fortress Monroe, VA on 13 October, was in Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond on 23 October, and and furloughed home on 9 November 1862. He was back on duty by April 1863 and was mortally wounded by a gunshot in action near Petersburg, VA on 20 June 1864. He died the next day in the CSA General Hospital in Petersburg.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and from his Compiled Service Records, via fold3.2 Hospital information from the Patient List.3

Death

06/21/1864; Petersburg, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316 [AotW citation 1634]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26578]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #852 [AotW citation 26579]

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