Charles Wallace

His father was Alexander McGhee Wallace (1822-1901), insurance agent, banker, and Atlanta politician, later Colonel of the 36th Georgia Infantry during the war. In 1860 Charles was a 16 year old living with his father, stepmother, and 7 siblings in Atlanta, GA. He enlisted in Atlanta on 1 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the First Georgia (Ramsey's) Infantry, and was discharged when they disbanded on 15 March 1862.

He enlisted again, on 19 April 1862, and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Cavalry.

He was wounded, place not given, but probably in the skirmish at Quebec Schoolhouse near Middletown, MD on 13 September, and sent back to a Richmond, VA hospital on 16 September 1862.

He was afterward home on a 60 day furlough with no later record with the Legion.

By December 1863 he was First Lieutenant of Company D of the 2nd Regiment, Confederate States Engineers, stationed at Fort McAllister near Savannah, GA. He was captured and paroled at Athens, GA on 8 May 1865.

He was editor of the Warrenton Georgia Clipper when he was killed on 12 March 1869 in a dispute over his application for membership in the local Masonic Lodge. His murderer, Dr George W Darden, who had turned himself in, was taken from the jail early the next day by a "mob of disguised men" and shot down in the street.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ann Dorothy Heath (1846-1926) and they had 2 sons; the second, Charles Alexander Wallace (1869-1935) was born 8 months after his father's death.

c. 1844; Blount County, TN

03/12/1869; Atlanta, GA; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA