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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles North Penfield

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer on his father's place at Berlin, Hartford County, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 30 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot through his left thigh, with fracture, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a field hospital then admitted to the hospital in the German Reformed (now Christ Reformed) Church in Sharpsburg on 5 October 1862. He died there of his wounds on 26 November 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson,3 quoting the casebook of Surgeon E. M. McDowell. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

More on the Web

See more about Penfield in a fine blog post from John Banks.

Birth

06/06/1842; Berlin, CT

Death

11/26/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Wilcox Cemetery, Berlin, 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 5570]

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. 632  [AotW citation 27193]

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, pp. 61-62, 348  [AotW citation 27194]