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C.H. Wolhaupter
(1836 - 1920)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
A 25 year old farmer, he enlisted at Monticello, ME as a Private in Company A, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in the knee in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the "Stone House" field hospital on the Samuel Poffenberger Farm near Sharpsburg, then admitted to the US Army hospital in the Jail Street School in Frederick, MD on 3 October. He was transferred to General Hospital #1 in Frederick on 20 January 1863 and on to Baltimore, MD on 12 June 1863. He was transferred to Company D, date not given, and transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 15 June 1864. He enlisted again, on 12 October 1864, as a Private in Company D, First Maine Sharpshooters, and was discharged on 26 May 1865.
After the War
By then a 30 year old school teacher, he enlisted on 17 September 1867 in Portland, ME as a Private in Company E, 44th United States Infantry. He was discharged for disability on 19 March 1869 in Washington, DC.
In 1871 he was in Wilmot, New Brunswick, by about 1873 he was in Kingman, ME, and by 1877 in Elkhart, IN; in 1880 was a railroad worker there. By 1883 he was in Janesville, WI. In 1900 he was a carpenter living with his son Frederick in Crow Wing County, MN.
On 13 October 1908 he was admitted to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Marion, IN. He transferred to the Home in Togus, ME, and was there again in 1916-1917. He was in the Home in Milwaukee, WI in 1915-1916, and again from August 1919 to his death on 31 January 1920 at age 83.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde,1 as Charles H. Wolhampter. Service information from the Maine Adjutant General,2 the Card File,3 and the Registers.4 Hospital details from the Patient List,5 as Waulhaupter, and Nelson.6 Personal details from family genealogists, the Canadian Census of 1871, the US Census of 1880 and 1900, and the Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a c. 1864 photograph Steve Meadow shared in the Historical Data Systems database.
He married Margaret Harrington (1843-1891) in June 1865 and they had 9 children.
Birth
09/24/1836; Richmond, New Brunswick, CANADA
Death
01/30/1920; Minneapolis, MN; burial in Wood National Cemetery, Milwaukee, WI
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6608]
2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, Appendix D, pg. 252 [AotW citation 29210]
3 State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000 [AotW citation 29211]
4 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 067, pg. 296 [AotW citation 29212]
5 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 #222 [AotW citation 29213]
6 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. 444 [AotW citation 29214]