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(c. 1837 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 23 year old apprentice carriage maker to his cousin John Lewis Hyde, and lived with the Hyde family in Griswold, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Sergeant in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action while a member of the regimental Color Guard at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Basic casualty information from Banks.1 His service from the Record.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
His fiancee Sarah Hyde (b. 1841) died a month after he did, and they were buried together in October 1862; Charles' and Sarah's mothers were sisters and John Lewis Hyde was Sarah's brother.
His brother Albert N Lewis (b. 1835) was a Private in Company B, 5th Connecticut Infantry, and died, probably of disease, in March 1863, leaving their widowed mother childless.
More on the Web
See more about Sergeant Lewis and Sarah Hyde in a post from John Banks on his Civil War blog.
Birth
c. 1837 in CT
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Carey Cemetery, Canterbury, CT
1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12543]
2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 345 [AotW citation 30644]