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(1837 - 1920)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 23 year old farmer on his parent's modest place in Warren, Litchfield County, CT. He enlisted on 23 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was seriously wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and was transferred out two days later, possibly to a hospital in Philadelphia. He was discharged for disability on 15 November 1862.
He enlisted again, on 30 July 1863, as a Private in Company K, 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery. He was promoted to Corporal on 15 October, to Sergeant on 20 December 1863, and transferred to Company A as First Sergeant on 20 July 1865. He mustered out on 18 August 1865 in Washington, DC.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Litchfield County, CT.
References & notes
Casualty information from Nelson1 and Major Ward's after-action report. His service from the Record.2 Hospital detail from the Patient List,3 as Charles Beaman. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Lucy M. Belcher (1847-1902) and they had 2 children between 1868 and 1881.
More on the Web
His 1865 diary was sold in 2015 by Heritage Auctions.
Birth
01/1837 in CT
Death
09/15/1920; burial in Bantam Burying Ground, Bantam, CT
1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 128 [AotW citation 16359]
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, pp. 177, 209, 342 [AotW citation 30627]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #608 [AotW citation 30628]