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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles Truelock

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 50th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Decatur County, he enlisted as Private, Company F, 50th Georgia Infantry on 28 Apri; 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army General Hospital in Frederick, MD on 17 September 8162 but died there of wounds on 27 September. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick" and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

His service from Henderson's Roster via Fincham.1 His burial from Pruitt2, as Charles Trubick. Hospital detail from the Patient List.3

Death

09/27/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Georgia C.S.A., Published c. 2005, <http://www.ranger95.com/civil_war/georgia/index.html>, Source page: /georgia/infantry/50th_inf_regt.html [AotW citation 3115]

2 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 5008]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #9.586 [AotW citation 24742]

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