Charles William Fry

Son of Orange County ciruit court clerk (1844-59) Philip S Fry, he was a teacher in Chicot County, AR for 18 months before the war, but returned to Virginia, not quite 20 years old, and was commissioned First Lieutenant of the Orange Artillery on 22 March 1862.

He was with his battery in Maryland, and probably in practical command in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

Captain Peyton was relieved and Fry was promoted to Captain and command of the battery on 4 October 1862. He led his battery through the war and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865, by then in command of Cutshaw’s Artillery Battalion.

He returned to Chicot County, AR and was a civil engineer working on levees on the Mississippi River. He moved to Hot Springs in Garland County, AR in 1878 and was in real estate there to at least 1880, was briefly circuit court clerk in 1879, then was superintendent of the Hot Springs Bath House Association to about 1900 and a bathhouse manager to at least 1910.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850, 1880-1910, and Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Central Arkansas (1890). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Francis Walker "Fannie" Davies (1846-1870) in October 1867 and they had 2 children, but she died very shortly after their second, son William (1870-1940), was born.

His brother Philip H Fry was Orange County, VA circuit court clerk after their father, from 1860 to 1904.

05/01/1842; Orange, VA

07/06/1922; Hot Springs, AR; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Hot Springs, AR