| Notes |
- Charles enlisted at the age of 18 from Macon,Michigan as a Private on
24Sep1861 as part of Company D, 3rd Cavalry Michigan Regiment.
The regiment left Grand Rapids November 28, 1861, for St.
Louis, Mo., under command of Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. G.
Minty. In March, 1862, the Third was in the army commanded by
General Pope, who at that date was operating against Island No.
10, in the Mississippi River, the regiment being located at New
Madrid, Mo., and was constantly under fire for several days.
The water at this place was extremly bad, and more sickness was
contracted here than at any one period of the four and a half
years' service of the regiment, the death rate being very
heavy. This persumably is were Charles got sick. His mother filed
for pension in May1883 on behalf of her sons service. ((I have not
yet acquired this record from the archive))
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Abt 1844 - 1862 (~ 18 years)
