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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles A. Hall

(c. 1833 - 1863)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

At 28 years old he enlisted on 28 August 1861 in Company I, 19th Massachusetts Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the left hip and thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Hoffman Farm hospital at Sharpsburg, then sent to Frederick, MD, where he died of wounds on 14 January 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines 1 and the History.2 Hospital detail from Nelson.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1833

Death

01/14/1863; Frederick, MD; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, MA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 476 [AotW citation 17914]

2 Waitt, Ernest Linden (compiler), History of the Nineteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865, Salem (MA): The Salem Press Co., 1906, pg. 146 [AotW citation 17915]

3 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. 233 [AotW citation 17916]

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