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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles H. Lester

(1844 - 1915)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Enfield, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September and sent on to Philadelphia on 30 September. He was discharged for disability on 19 December 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1844

Death

1915; burial in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, 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. 650 - 663 [AotW citation 5523]

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. 627 [AotW citation 27092]

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 #634 [AotW citation 27093]

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