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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles Wessner

(c. 1838 - 1863)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 22 year old mine laborer at Hughes in Foster Township, Schuylkill County, PA. He enlisted and mustered on 25 September 1861 in Pottsville as a Private in Company K, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died, probably of disease, with his wound possibly contributing, on 5 March 1863 at Sharpsburg, MD.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His wounding in Maryland from a casualty list provided by Colonel Cake and printed in the Pottsville Miner's Journal of 4 October 1862. Personal details from the US Census of 1860, as Charles Waesner. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838 in PA

Death

03/05/1863; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31153]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 31154]

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