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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles W. Erickson

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his widowed mother in Dekorra, Columbia County, WI. He enlisted on 24 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry on 11 June in Madison.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 16 September 1862, probably in a field hospital in Middletown, MD. His mother Betsey applied for a US pension in January 1864 based on Charles' service.

References & notes

His service from the State of Wisconsin,1 as Charles W Eriksen, and his Compiled Service Records (CSRs),2 which say he was killed outright on South Mountain, also as Errickson. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. Thanks to Kathy Steckelberg for sharing her research in Erickson's CSRs and pension files.

Birth

c. 1839 in NORWAY

Death

09/16/1862; Frederick County, MD

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 366 - 369 [AotW citation 10206]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31215]

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