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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles Simmons Madden

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Company D, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 2 June (Jan?) 1862 at Adams Run, SC at about age 20.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Fox's Gap on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the US General Hospital #1, Frederick, MD, but died there of wounds on 28 October 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Davis1. There was a Charles D. Madden in Company C of the 12th SC Infantry, who died 28 October 1862 and is buried in Mt Olivet Cemetery. Either Davis or the cemetery may have confused these two men.

Birth

c. 1842; Laurens District, SC

Death

10/28/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mt Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Sam B., A History of the 3rd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Battalion (James Battalion): 1861-1865 , Wilmington (NC): Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 68-71, Roster [AotW citation 16013]

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