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C.B. Fox
(1833 - 1895)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 28, a civil engineer in Dorcester, he enrolled and was commissioned on 16 July 1861 as 2nd Lieutenant of Company K, 13th Massachusetts Infantry at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor. He transferred to Company I on 22 June 1862 and was promoted to First Lieutenant on 16 August.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a buckshot which broke a bone in his forefinger.
The rest of the War
He was discharged 14 February 1863 for transfer as First Lieutenant and Regimental Commissary of the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry, and on 14 April to be First Lieutenant of Company G. He was promoted and transferred again, to the 55th Massachusetts Infantry, commissioned Major on 30 May and Lieutenant Colonel on 3 November 1863. He resigned and was discharged on 24 June 1865. He was honored by brevet to Colonel, US Volunteers to date from March 1865.
After the War
Immediately after the War he ran a cotton plantation on Sea Island off South Carolina. He returned to Boston in 1868, practiced as a civil engineer, and was in the real estate partnership Holbrook & Fox in Boston into the 1890s. He was also a member of the Massachusetts legislature.
References & notes
His service from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Bio details from the Massachusetts Historical Society finding aid to his family's papers, and a sketch from the Forest Hills Educational Trust. His photograph from one in the MOLLUS Massachusetts Collection2.
Birth
05/19/1833; Newburyport, MA
Death
03/30/1895; Dorchester, MA; burial in Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, MA
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. 121 - 126; Vol. 4, pg. 717 [AotW citation 7015]
2 US Army, Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC), Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS)-Massachusetts Photograph Collection, Published 2009, <https://arena.usahec.org/web/arena>, Source page: pg. 5333 [AotW citation 7029]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34706]