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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles W. Shannon

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company B.

References & notes

Basic information from Carruth1. A 24 year old resident of Newburyport, MA, he enrolled at Private, Company B, 35th Massachusetts Infantry, and mustered in August 1862. He was in action on South Mountain and at the South Anna, VA, where he was wounded on 24 May 1864. He was detailed to the hospital, and discharged on expiration of his term on 9 June 1865. He was living in Portsmouth, MA in 1884.

Notes

1   Carruth, Sumner, and others of the Committee of the Regimental Association, History of the Thirty-Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865, Boston: Mills, Knight & Company, 1884, Roster, pg. 16  [AotW citation 15108]