Charles Henry Wilson

Before the war he was a foreman at the Eastern Clarion newspaper in Paulding, Jasper County, MS. At age 28 he enlisted as a Private at Paulding on 27 April 1861 and mustered as First Sergeant of Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 31 May 1861 in Corinth. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 26 April 1862 at the Army reorganization, and promoted to First Lieutenant 2 days later.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh and captured in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

His leg was amputated in a US Army field hospital near Sharpsburg, where he was reported to be "doing well." He was at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, sent to Fortress Monroe, VA, and exchanged there on 8 December 1862. He was in a CS Army hospital in Petersburg, VA by 10 December and furloughed home on 18 December 1862. He was absent on extended wounded furlough to 22 May 1863, when he tendered his resignation on account of disability.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. A casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862 has him as killed at Sharpsburg. His pre-war occupation from an item in the Augusta, GA Weekly Constitutionalist of 22 October 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

02/26/1833; Greensboro, AL

10/30/1897; Montgomery, AL; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, AL