Chauncey C. Knowlton

A 21 year old blacksmith in Brunswick, ME, he mustered as Private, Company I, 22nd Massachusetts Infantry on 4 October 1861.

He was mortally wounded, his left leg shattered, likely by a shot from Federal artillery in action near Shepherdstown, VA in 20 September 1862.

He was treated at a field hospital and his left leg was amputated at the upper thigh. On 5 October he was taken to the hospital in the German Reformed Church in the town of Sharpsburg, by which time his stump was deteriorating with infection, probably due to neglect of his wound. He died there at 8:00 AM on 13 October 1862. He was reinterred from his original burial near the Antietam battlefield to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as C.C. Knowlton, Company unknown. Service from Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson3, quoting from the casebook of Surgeon E.M. McDowell. The circumstances of his wounding were described by R.G. Carter in Four Brothers in Blue published in the Maine Bugle in 1897. His gravesite is on Findgrave.

c. 1840

10/13/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD