Charles Napoléon Civalier

Age 24, he enrolled on 25 April 1861 and was elected and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Company G of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 1 May. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was acting regimental Adjutant in Maryland and "did all that a brave an patriotic soldier could do. He also was dangerously wounded in the last charge" in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, by a gunshot to his left elbow, the bone broken.

He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 13 October 1862 and was away on wounded furlough to at least May 1863. He was afterward listed as absent without leave to 14 November 1863, when he resigned his commission. He was assigned as an enrolling officer on conscription duty, probably at Camp Holmes in Raleigh, from October 1863 to at least May 1864.

In 1870 he was a bar keeper at Jackson in Northampton County, NC. He was living at 108 Bleecker Street in New York City at the 1890 US Veteran's Census.

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, indexed as Charles N Civallier. The quote above from Lieutenant Colonel Ruffin's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists, also as Charles Napoleon De Civalier, and the US Census of 1870; his baptismal name was Charles Louis Napoléon Joseph Civalier. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Myra Gaines Lee (1841-1908) in August 1864 and they had 4 or 5 children. Her father Richard Bland Lee II (1797-1875; USMA 1817) was cousin to Robert E. Lee.

11/18/1835; Richebourg, Pas-de-Calais, FRANCE

11/26/1898; Manhattan, NY; burial in The Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY