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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles Lemuel Preston

(1844 - 1866)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 17, a farmer from Worcester, he enlisted in Company G, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 30 July 1861. He was wounded in the hip at Ball's Bluff, VA on 21 October 1861 and returned to duty on 13 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, but was actually captured there.

The rest of the War

He was a prisoner in Richmond, then a paroled prisoner in the camp at Annapolis, MD by 15 October 1862. He deserted on 25 February (or 1 March) 1863 near Falmouth, VA.

After the War

Not long after the war, by then a married 22 year old brakeman in Worcester, he died from an accidental "wound on head."

References & notes

Basic service information from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 with further details from Susan Harnwell.2 His death details from the Massachusetts Death Register, via FamilySearch. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

02/26/1844; Worcester, MA

Death

06/28/1866; Worcester, MA; burial in Hope Cemetery, Worcester, MA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 181 [AotW citation 5839]

2 Harnwell, Susan, The 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War 1861 - 1864, Published 1997, first accessed 01 January 1999, <http://www.nextech.de/ma15mvi/>, Source page: /ma15mvi/Roster/p90.htm#i1183 [AotW citation 27735]

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