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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles H. Stillman

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old printer living with master printer C.P. Bowman and family in Paulding, Jasper County, MS; C.P. and probably Charles worked on the Eastern Clarion newspaper. He enlisted in Paulding on 10 March 1862 as a Private in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was originally listed as missing in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862, but was soon after presumed killed there.

The rest of the War

His widow Cynthia applied for his final pay in November 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg status also in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1839 in AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 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 29675]

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