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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles B. Hawes

(c. 1841 - 1914)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, from Union, he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 7th Maine Infantry on 23 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was initially reported missing in action on 17 September 1862, but had been wounded by a gunshot to his left foot.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 27 September. A portion of his os calcis (heel bone) was removed, having necrosed, on 24 January 1863 and he was returned to duty on 9 June 1863. He reenlisted on 14 December and transferred to Company B of the First Maine Veteran Infantry on 21 August 1864. He was wounded again, at Winchester, VA on 19 September 1864 and was sent to Company H, 14th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps on 10 December 1864.

After the War

He was given an invalid veteran's pension in 1885.

References & notes

His status as missing at Antietam from Hyde.1 Wound, hospital and surgical details from the MSHWR,2 as C.B. Haws, and the Patient List.3 His service from the Adjutant General.4 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

06/06/1914; in MT; burial in Forestvale Cemetery, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, MT

Notes

1   Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02  [AotW citation 6623]

2   Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870, Volume 2, Part 3, pg. 627  [AotW citation 27847]

3   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 #506  [AotW citation 27848]

4   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  [AotW citation 27849]