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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles A. Branch

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at age 26 in Alamance County, NC in Company D, 6th North Carolina Infantry on 27 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett1 with service information from Iobst.2

Birth

c. 1835

Death

1862; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1   Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010  [AotW citation 4432]

2   Iobst, Richard William, and Louis H. Manarin, Wade Lucas, The Bloody Sixth : the Sixth North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America, Raleigh: North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, 1965, pg. 338  [AotW citation 15428]