Charles Sterling Cooley

A minister's son, in 1860 he was a 21 year old cabinet maker living with his parents and 5 siblings in Hillsborough, NC. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 April 1861.

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

He was wounded again, in the hand in action, on 14 October 1863 at Bristoe Station, VA and on 5 May 1864 at the Wilderness, VA. He was captured on 2 April 1865 at Petersburg, VA and held at Point Lookout, MD until he took the Oath of Allegiance on 10 June 1865.

By 1880 he was again a cabinet maker, in Hillsborough, NC.

Sharpsburg casualty information from Wilson.1 Service details from the Roster 2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah J Barker (1846-1899) in 1865, and they had a son Edward; grandson Charles Sterling Cooley was born in 1890.

Four Cooley brothers were in Company G during the war: his younger brother James Leonidas Cooley was captured at Sharpsburg; the oldest, Thomas LeMay Cooley (1829-1878), was in the company in April 1861, then Sergeant, later Lieutenant in Co. B, 6th North Carolina Infantry - he was wounded at 2nd Manassas and not with his regiment at Sharpsburg; youngest brother Joseph Gaston Brown Cooley (1846-1930) enlisted in the company in January 1865.

03/24/1839; Hillsborough, NC

04/17/1900; Hillsborough, NC; burial in Hillsborough Town Cemetery, Hillsborough, NC