C.H. Walker

Federal (USV)

Private

Charles H. Walker

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Norwich, he enlisted on 10 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.

On the Campaign

Major Ward reported his bravery at Antietam on 17 September 1862:

I will notice particularly the conduct of Private Charles Walker, of Company D, who brought the national colors off the field after the sergeant and every corporal of the color-guard were either killed or wounded.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant, Company C on 17 October 1862. He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was reduced again to Private on 22 February 1864. He mustered out on 12 December 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 His picture from a photograph in the Matthew R. Isenburg, posted to his Civil War Blog by John Banks.

Birth

c. 1842 in CT

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. 336, 341 [AotW citation 30585]

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