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Federal (USV)

Captain

Charles Babcock

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Canton, he enrolled as Captain of Company E, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 1 August 1862, and mustered at that rank on 24 August.

On the Campaign

He commanded his Company at Antietam and was wounded in action there on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He resigned his commission on 18 December 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2

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. 651 - 663  [AotW citation 5538]

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 27112]