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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles Thomas Lockett

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 21, he enlisted in Henrico County on 23 April 1861 as Private, Company A, 15th Virginia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in Staunton, VA on 15 November 1862.

References & notes

Thanks to Adam Zimmerli for pointer to Lockett and for his research in the Southern Historical Society Papers1 and the Virginia Military Dead2. His service basics from Manarin.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

11/15/1862; Staunton, VA; burial in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, VA

Notes

1 Southern Historical Society, and Rev. John William Jones, Robert Alonzo Brock, James Power Smith, editors, Southern Historical Society Papers, 52 Vols., Richmond: Southern Historical Society, 1876-1959, Vol. 22, pg. 51 [AotW citation 8837]

2 Library of Virginia, Virginia Military Dead Database, Published 2002, first accessed 30 November 2012, <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/vmd/> [AotW citation 8838]

3 Manarin, Louis H., 15th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1990 [AotW citation 25822]

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