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(c. 1841 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 20 years. Enlisted August 9, 1861 at New York City and mustered in as Private, Company E to serve two years. He was promoted Sergeant on August 11, 1862.
On the Campaign
In his after-action report, Colonel Kimball said "I cannot close this report without calling your special attention to ... Sergeants Smith, Hankinson, Jackson and Keating (the latter both wounded), Company E ..."
The rest of the War
He transferred to Co. K, Third Infantry, May 6, 1863 but discharged on May 14.
References & notes
Service data from State of New York1, which also lists him as Charles H. Henkerson.
Birth
c. 1841
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 18 (for the year 1899), pg. 440 [AotW citation 12637]