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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles P. Penbrook

(c. 1842 - 1864)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

He was a 20 year old fisherman at Bath, ME when he enlisted on 6 December 1861 and he mustered as a Private in Company D, 7th Maine Infantry on 20 December.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, at Fredericksburg, VA and was killed in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864.

References & notes

Antietam casualty information from Hyde.1. His service from the Adjutant General,2 as Charles P Pembroke, and the Card File.3

Birth

c. 1842; Guysborough, Nova Scotia, CANADA

Death

05/06/1864; Wilderness, VA

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 6636]

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. 261 [AotW citation 29260]

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 29261]

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