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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles B. Martin

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A miller's son, in 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old factory operative living with his father and 2 younger siblings in Tallassee, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 27 September for "gallantry" at Sharpsburg but was killed in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1840 in GA

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, VA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32740]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32741]

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