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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles William Dawson McHugh

(1839 - 1909)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 24th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Gwinnett County, he enlisted there on 24 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 24th Georgia Infantry on 3 October.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh and captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US Army field hospital in Burkittsville, MD, sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore by 12 November, and exchanged at City Point, VA on 21 November 1862. He was furloughed for 60 days from the General Hospital in Petersburg, VA on 19 December 1862. By March 1864 he was listed as absent without leave, with no military record later than 31 August 1864.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farm worker back in Gwinnett County. By 1880 he was farming his own place in the Chattahoochee District in Forsyth County, GA, but in 1900 he was again farming in Gwinnett.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

02/22/1839; Buford, GA

Death

11/01/1909; Gwinnett County, GA; burial in Rock Springs UMC Cemetery, Buford, GA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19469]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30864]

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