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C.F. Stone
(1831 - 1883)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 26 year old watchmaker living in his widowed mother-in-law's home in Machias, ME. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Company C, 6th Maine Infantry on 15 July 1861. He was detailed to the Signal Corps in March 1862, assigned to General McDowell's First Army Corps, and was with General Pope in Northern Virginia in August.
On the Campaign
On 14 September 1862 he manned a signal station on South Mountain and on 17 September the station at Army Headquarters near the battlefield of Antietam.
The rest of the War
He was in action again at Fredericksburg, VA in December. He was appointed Captain in the Signal Corps, US Volunteers in June 1863 but resigned on 5 November 1863.
After the War
By 1880 he was back in Machias, ME and was a jeweler there. He died, probably from a fall or other accident, while hunting at Little Bog Lake near Northfield, ME.
References & notes
His basic service from the Adjutant General1 and Brown.2 His Maryland Campaign service from Major Myer's Report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His death from a piece in the Philadelphia Times of 4 November 1883, online. His picture from a carte-de-visite online from the Maine State Archives.
He married Mary W. Longfellow (1833-1916) in December 1859.
Birth
05/07/1831; Peterborough, NH
Death
11/01/1883; Northfield, ME; burial in Court Street Cemetery, Machias, ME
1 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, pg. 30 [AotW citation 28744]
2 Brown, J. Willard, The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion, Boston: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, 1896, pp. 238, 293, 332, 342, 877 [AotW citation 28745]