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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Charles Henry Waterhouse

(1830 - 1903)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 30 year old carpenter in Cape Elizabeth near Portland, ME. He enlisted on 4 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He mustered out on 5 September 1864.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was again a house carpenter in Cape Elizabeth, ME.

References & notes

Basic information from Hyde1. His service from the Maine Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Caroline Melinda Thomas (1830-1902) in May 1854 and they had a son Harry (1857-1926).

Birth

04/09/1830; Scarboro, ME

Death

01/22/1903; South Portland, ME; burial in Bay View Cemetery, South Portland Gardens, ME

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 6661]

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. 270 [AotW citation 29327]

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 29328]

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