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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles Adams Gleason

(1837 - 1864)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, a leather dresser (or mechanic) from Leicester, he enlisted in Company D, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 12 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, but was actually captured there.

The rest of the War

He was a prisoner in Richmond, then a paroled prisoner in the camp at Annapolis, MD by 15 October 1862. He was wounded and captured in May 1864 and died 8 November 1864 at Andersonville, GA while a prisoner of war.

References & notes

Basic service information from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 with further details from Susan Harnwell.2 His cenotaph in Pine Grove Cemetery, Leicester, MA is on Findagrave; he's probably buried as an "unknown" at Andersonville.

Birth

08/20/1837; Leicester, MA

Death

11/08/1864; Andersonville, GA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 155 - 160 [AotW citation 5701]

2 Harnwell, Susan, The 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War 1861 - 1864, Published 1997, first accessed 01 January 1999, <http://www.nextech.de/ma15mvi/>, Source page: /ma15mvi/Roster/p46.htm#i626 [AotW citation 27740]

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