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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles E. Allen

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents, 6 siblings, and 4 slaves on their farm at Forestville in Wake County, NC. He was conscripted in Raleigh, NC on 15 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD then sent to Fort Delaware, where he died of disease on 18 September 1862.

His father William filed a claim for his final pay of $32.58 in March 1863; it was probably paid in July 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brother James was also captured in a Frederick hospital in 1862.

Birth

c. 1840; Wake County, NC

Death

09/18/1862; Fort Delaware, DE

Notes

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 34452]

2 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: #247 [AotW citation 34453]

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