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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles Kemp

(1843 - 1907)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 11th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old worker on his parents' farm at Pepperell, Middlesex County, MA. He enlisted on 7 October 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 11th Connecticut Infantry on 24 October.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his face in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, his left eye destroyed.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 2 October and discharged for disability there on 6 February 1863.

After the War

By 1865 and to at least 1880 he was again a farmer on his parents' place in Pepperell. He was still there at the 1890 US Veterans' Census and he died there unmarried at age 64 of "alcoholism and paralysis of heart."

References & notes

His service basics from Ingersoll.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and the Massachusetts Census of 1865. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/06/1843; Hollis, NH

Death

12/21/1907; Pepperell, MA; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Pepperell, MA

Notes

1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869 [AotW citation 31390]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #92 [AotW citation 31391]

3 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 1, p. 337 [AotW citation 31392]

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