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Federal (USV)

Captain

Charles H. Chase

(c. 1836 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 132nd Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 26 year old bookkeeper from Troy, PA, he enrolled and mustered in Harrisburg on 16 August 1862 as Captain of Company D of the 132nd Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in Maryland and assisted the wounded Colonel Oakford to the rear in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He resigned his commission on 6 December 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from the Card File.1 His role at Antietam from a letter Captain Archibald wrote home, posted online by Dan Masters. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1836

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 34657]

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