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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles E. Dam

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A clerk from Chelsea, he enlisted at age 19 on 21 July 1862 as Private, Company D, 35th Massachusetts Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

Died 27 December 1862 in Chelsea, Massachusetts of wounds.

References & notes

Service information from Soldiers1, with burial from the Roll of Honor2.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

12/27/1862; Chelsea, MA; burial in Garden Cemetery, Chelsea, MA

Notes

1   Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, pg. 661  [AotW citation 8377]

2   US Army, Quartermaster General, Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers who Died in Defence of the American Union, Interred in the National [and other] Cemeteries, 27 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1865-1871, Vol. 16, pg. 5  [AotW citation 8378]