Charles N. Lawson

He enrolled as First Lieutenant of Company A, 92nd Virginia Militia on 25 March 1862 and was commissioned Captain, Company L, 55th Virginia Infantry on 22 May.

He commanded the regiment as senior officer present in Maryland.

He was captured while on leave near Fredericksburg, VA on 14 December 1862 and held at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC until he was exchanged on 15 March 1863. He was promoted to Major on 26 June 1863 but was mortally wounded on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 19 August 1864 and died the same day.

His service from Richard O'Sullivan's 55th Virginia Infantry (1989). He's seen as a Major at Sharpsburg in the standard Orders of Battle.

01/21/1821; Lancaster County, VA

08/19/1864; Petersburg, VA