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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Charles Newton Irwin

(1840 - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A merchant tailor's son from New Milford, CT, he enlisted on 14 September 1861 and mustered as a Sergeant in Company I, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September. He was appointed First Sergeant on 5 May 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Company E on 8 November 1863. He was killed at Chaffin's Farm/Fort Harrison near Richmond, VA on 29 September 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He was a Freemason, member of St Peter's Lodge #21 in New Milford.

Birth

11/24/1840 in CT

Death

09/29/1864; Richmond, VA; burial in Center Cemetery, New Milford, 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. 342, 353 [AotW citation 30793]

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