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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles E. Conkright

(c. 1822 - ?)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 38 year old laborer living with merchant Hugh McMahon and family at Loogootee in Martin County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #2 in Frederick, MD on 24 September and sent on to Philadelphia the next day. He was discharged for disability at Fairfax Seminary, VA on 6 February 1863.

After the War

He began receiving a veterans' pension for disability in November 1868.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as C.E. Contright. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, also as Charles Conkwright.

Birth

c. 1822 in VT

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 277 [AotW citation 33380]

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 #13 [AotW citation 33381]

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