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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles N. Ritchie

(c. 1824 - ?)

Home State: New Jersey

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th New Jersey Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at age 38 in Company D, 13th New Jersey Infantry on 14 August 1862 and mustered as Private on 25 August.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and held at Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He was exchanged and returned to his unit, then in Tennessee (1864). He mustered out of service with his Company on 8 June 1865.

References & notes

Basic information from the D Society1.

Birth

c. 1824; Westchester County, NY

Notes

1   D Society, Veterans, Co. D 13th NJ Infantry, Historical Sketch of Co. D, 13th Regiment, N.J. Vols., Newark (NJ): D.H. Gildersleeve & Co., 1875, pg. 75  [AotW citation 17237]