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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles W. Parker

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old carpenter in Avon, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, First Connecticut Infantry for 3 months service on 18 April 1861 and mustered out with them on 31 July 1861. He enlisted again, as a Sergeant in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured on 20 April 1864 at Plymouth, NC, was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA, and was paroled on 10 December 1864. He was discharged on 7 June 1865 at Annapolis, MD.

After the War

He was granted an invalid veteran's pension in 1879.

References & notes

His service from the Record 1 with enlistment age and occupation from Gordon.2

Birth

c. 1839

Notes

1 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. 11, 635 [AotW citation 27294]

2 Gordon, Lesley J., 16th CV [Connecticut Volunteers] database [roster], Published 2014, first accessed 06 February 2022, <https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D0B38CB5864DA66C!107&authkey=!ACNE422k47Tnc_Q&ithint=file%2cxl> [AotW citation 27295]

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