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(c. 1845 - ?)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 24th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents and 2 siblings on their small farm near Clarksville in Habersham County, GA. He enlisted in Habersham County on 24 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 24th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, by 12 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September then a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, when he was sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 8 October and sent to the parole camp on 22 October. He was back in a Richmond hospital by 9 November 1862 and furloughed that date for 30 days.
He was captured again, in a field hospital at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and sent back to Fort Delaware. Claiming to be a conscript born in California, he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and enlisted there in the 1st Connecticut Cavalry on 1 October 1863. He mustered as a Private in Company F on 5 October, but deserted from the unit on 25 January 1864. No later military record found.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, indexed under Charles O Collins, and the Record of Service,2 as Charles C. Collins. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
His father Isham (1815-1891) was also in Company H, but was discharged for disability in June 1862 at age 47.
Birth
c. 1845 in GA
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 34269]
2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 79 [AotW citation 34271]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #55 [AotW citation 34270]