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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Charles H. Greene

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a blacksmith, in 1860 he was a 19 year old wheelwright living with his parents and 8 siblings in Suwannee County, FL. He enlisted at Houston in Suwannee County, FL on 10 May 1862 and mustered there on 15 May as 5th Sergeant of Company C, 8th Florida Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in US Army Hospital in Frederick, MD and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to the Florida Hospital in Richmond, VA on October and died there of remittent fever on 28 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, also as Charles H Green. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Arnold was also captured at Frederick.

Birth

c. 1841 in GA

Death

10/28/1862; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

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 34918]

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