Charles Loit

(c. 1838 - 1905)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
From Fairfield, he enlisted in Company A, 6th Wisconsin Infantry on 10 May 1861.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was wounded in action in September 1862.

The remainder of the War:
Discharged for disability on 17 December 1862.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from State of Wisconsin's Roster1. His gravesite on Findagrave, source of his death date and age, also shows service as Corporal in Company G or L, 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry (9 February 1864 - 23 October 1865), but the Roster does not list him in any Company of that unit.

Death Date: 03/17/1905 Burial Place: Maple Grove Cemetery, Lawrence, KS

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 498 - 500 [AotW citation 10278]

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