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(1841 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 23rd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old apprentice (machinist?) living with his parents and siblings in Tioga County, PA. He enlisted on 9 May 1861 in Hornellsville, NY to serve two years and mustered as a Private in Company G, 23rd New York Infantry on 16 May. He was detailed to Battery B, 4th United States Artillery by June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded while serving with Battery B in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the field hospital in Smoketown near Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds on 24 October (or 28 November) 1862.
After the War
He was reinterred in the National Cemetery in about 1867 from his original burial on the field at Smoketown.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Adjutant General2 with his detail to Battery B from Buell3 and pension records. Hospital details also from Nelson,4 citing Maryland Hospital Record 352, Record Group 94, NARA. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Charles and his family were in Tioga County, NY at the 1850 US and 1855 NY State Censuses. Tioga, PA and Tioga, NY are just across the state border from each other.
Birth
05/26/1841; Dryden, NY
Death
10/24/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3618]
2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 20, pg. 475 [AotW citation 22633]
3 Buell, Augustus, The Cannoneer: Recollections of Service in the Army of the Potomac, Washington: The National Tribune Company, 1890, pg. 19 [AotW citation 27462]
4 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 241 [AotW citation 27463]