Charles M. Parks

Son of a boot and shoe maker, he enlisted at Hillsborough, NC as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 April 1861, and was detailed as a Hospital Steward on 7 June. He was appointed Acting Hospital Steward of the regiment on 1 August 1862.

He was with his regiment in Maryland and was left behind to tend wounded soldiers after the battle at Sharpsburg and was captured there on 19 September 1862.

He was sent to Richmond, VA on 1 October and was furloughed for 30 days. He was formally appointed Hospital Steward on 9 July 1863. He was surrendered and paroled with his regiment at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he was a clerk, probably in his brother David's drug store, and lived with his parents and siblings in Hillsborough. By 1880 he was running a general store in Hillsborough and in 1900 he was living with his sister Josephine and brother David and was listed as a "capitalist," probably still an owner of a dry goods store. By 1910 and to at least 1920 he was retired and lived in Tarboro, NC.

His service from Moore1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Further details from J.A. Graham's Descriptive Book of the Orange Guards in his Papers;3 thanks to Steve Peck for the nudge to look deeper into that. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Henrietta Sidle Davidson (1856-1874) in October 1873. He married again, Virginia May “Jennie” Wilson (1860-1894) in 1880 and married thirdly the widow Kate Staton Blount (1867-1949) in November 1900.

08/19/1841; Orange County, NC

02/28/1922; Tarboro, NC; burial in Hillsborough Town Cemetery, Hillsborough, NC