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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles H. Gee

"Charley"

(1842 - 1865)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

A physician's son, in 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents and 6 siblings on the Joseph Ward farm in Plover, Portage County, WI. He enlisted in the Waupun Light Guard (later Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry) as a Private on 25 April 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 10 January 1863. He enlisted in Company F, 5th Wisconsin Infantry on 19 August 1864. He was mortally wounded in action at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865 and died of his wounds at the General Hospital, Annapolis, MD on 14 May.

References & notes

His service from Bryant1 and the State Roster2, with details from a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote (cousin?) Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. He also has a stone in Arnott, WI.

Birth

1842 in NY

Death

05/14/1865; Annapolis, MD; burial in Annapolis National Cemetery, Annapolis, MD

Notes

1 Bryant, Edwin Eustace, History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Madison: Arthur H Clark Co. for the Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891, pp. 415 - 419 [AotW citation 15213]

2 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pg. 484 [AotW citation 15221]

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