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C. Fox
(1835 - 1906)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 25 year old painter in Philadelphia. He mustered as a Private in Company C, 88th Pennsylvania Infantry on 17 November 1861. He was appointed Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 4 January 1864 but was captured on 19 August, probably on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA. He was released and returned to duty on 19 March 1865. He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 May 1865 and First Sergeant on 13 June. He mustered out with his company on 30 June 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a house painter in Conshohocken, PA.
References & notes
His service from Bates1 and the Card File,2 both as Chakley Fox. POW detail from the History.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress.
He married Charlotte Oyster (1842-before 1900) and they had 5 children between 1866 and 1878.
Birth
02/17/1835; Chester County, PA
Death
01/06/1906; Conshohocken, PA; burial in Gulph United Church of Christ Cemetery, West Conshohocken, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11827]
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 30545]
3 Vautier, John D., History of the 88th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War for the Union, 1861-1865, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1894, p. 243 [AotW citation 30546]