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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Charles A. Campbell

(1838 - 1864)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

His father, Scottish-born mason and stone cutter Donald Campbell (1808-85) came to America in 1832 to help build the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh (1832-40). In 1860 Charles was a 21 year old printer on James W. Albright's Greensboro Times, and lived with Albright and his family in Greensboro, Guilford County, NC. He enlisted on 20 April 1861 at Fort Macon, NC and mustered as Private, Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 June. He was appointed 4th Corporal on 22 April 1862 and 5th Sergeant on 1 August.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Shortly after Sharpsburg he was appointed Orderly (First) Sergeant. He was admitted to a hospital in Culpeper, VA on 27 September and one in Richmond, VA the next day, and returned to duty on 11 October. On 11 December 1863 he was elected Lieutenant. He was killed on the skirmish line at Pole Green Church, VA on 2 June 1864.

References & notes

His service from Wilson,1 Sloan,2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

10/27/1838; Wake County, NC

Death

06/02/1864; Pole Green Church, VA

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9827]

2 Sloan, John Alexander, Reminiscences of the Guilford Grays, Co. B., 27th N. C. Regiment, Washington DC: R. C. Polkinhorn, printer, 1883, pg. 122 [AotW citation 9867]

3 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32079]

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