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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles H. Austin

(1834 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer on his parent's place at Fairhaven, MA. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company F, 18th Massachusetts Infantry on 7 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in the leg, the bone broken, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His leg was amputated at the thigh, but he died of wounds on 24 September 1862, probably at a field hospital on or near the battlefield.

References & notes

His service basics from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines,1 which says he died of disease. Wound details from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. He also has a memorial in Naskatucket Cemetery, Fairhaven, MA.

Birth

10/07/1834; Fairhaven, MA

Death

09/24/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, p. 380 [AotW citation 31009]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 3. p. 268 [AotW citation 31010]

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