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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles W. Pease

(1843 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 16 year old farm boy on his family's place at Enfield in Hartford County, CT. By the summer of 1862 he was in East Windsor and he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 9 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, two days after his 19th birthday.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/15/1843; Vernon, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Grove Hill Cemetery, Rockville, CT

Notes

1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 643 - 663 [AotW citation 5415]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 621 [AotW citation 26980]

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