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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Charles Curtis King

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From East Windsor, he enlisted as a Sergeant in Rifle Company E, 3rd Connecticut Infantry on 25 April 1861 for 3 months, and mustered out with them on 12 August 1861. He enlisted again, as a Sergeant in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 5 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring hospital on the Geeting farm at Keedysville, MD but died there of wounds on 20 September 1862 at age 21.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Hospital detail from Nelson3 and his gravestone. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841; East Windsor, CT

Death

09/20/1862; Keedysville, MD; burial in Scantic Cemetery, East Windsor, 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. 656 - 663 [AotW citation 5551]

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, pp. 42, 631 [AotW citation 27187]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 275 [AotW citation 27188]

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