Charles Ethan Stamp

A farmer's son, he enlisted in Dundee, NY on 10 October 1861, mustered as a Private in Company E, 93rd Infantry on 10 November, and transferred to Company A of the 76th New York Infantry in January 1862. He was promoted to Sergeant and transferred to Company B on 1 September 1862.

He carried the regimental colors at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862:

...he rushed forward about a rod in advance of the Regiment, while the bullets were falling thickly around him, and, planting the flag staff firmly in the ground, shouted, "There, come up to that!" But he made too good a mark, and before the Regiment had time to obey the order, a fatal ball pierced his forehead, and "Charley Stamp," one of the truest and best men in the Regiment, was mustered out of the army militant, and mustered into the army triumphant.

He was reinterred from his original burial on South Mountain to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

His father began receiving a US pension in January 1880 based on Charley's service.

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the State of New York2 with his death details quoted from Smith's History.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by Mary Sheesley.

04/09/1841; Dix, NY

09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD