C. Yoest

Federal (USV)

Corporal

Charles Yoest

(1841 - 1925)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company H, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry on 11 July 1861 for 3 years as Corporal.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant 1 March 1864, and to First Sergeant 1 June 1865. He mustered out of service with his Company on 15 July 1865 as a re-enlisted Veteran.

After the War

As of 1918-19 he was Junior Vice Commander of the Col. O. H. Rippey Post (No. 41), Grand Army of the Republic, Pittsburgh.

References & notes

Basic information from Bates1. Further details from his gravesite on Findagrave. His photograph from a CDV kindly supplied by Paul Harig.

Birth

1841

Death

04/19/1925; burial in Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery, Lawrenceville, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. 1, pp. 464 - 478 [AotW citation 8093]

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