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Federal (USA)

Corporal

Charles V. Osborn

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: 5th United States Artillery, Battery I

Before Antietam

A 20 year old joiner, he enlisted with Captain Weed in New York City on 24 September 1861 as a Private in Battery I, 5th United States Artillery. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Boteler's Ford near Shepherdstown, VA on 19 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Registers.1

Birth

c. 1841; Brookfield, CT

Death

09/19/1862; Boteler's Ford, MD

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, p. 639 [AotW citation 30476]

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