--He was the 7th of 8 children of George Blackwelder & his wife Elizabeth Stough.
--He married a second cousin Sarah R. Blackwelder in April 1856. They had 2 children: Nathaniel Arthur Blackwelder & Lundy Catharine Blackwelder.
--He enlisted in April 1862, serving in Company A, 52nd NC Infantry, CSA. He was wounded and captured on 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg. He died of disease at hospital in Chester, PA.
"Case 57. — Private C. M. Blackweldcr, Co. A, 52d North Carolina, was wounded at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, and admitted to hospital at Chester about three weeks afterwards. Surgeon E. Swift, U. S. A., reported : " Gunshot wound, followed by a dissecting abscess involving the head of the femur and its ligaments. The patient died of pyaemia, September 21, 1863." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1883.
--He was the 7th of 8 children of George Blackwelder & his wife Elizabeth Stough.
--He married a second cousin Sarah R. Blackwelder in April 1856. They had 2 children: Nathaniel Arthur Blackwelder & Lundy Catharine Blackwelder.
--He enlisted in April 1862, serving in Company A, 52nd NC Infantry, CSA. He was wounded and captured on 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg. He died of disease at hospital in Chester, PA.
"Case 57. — Private C. M. Blackweldcr, Co. A, 52d North Carolina, was wounded at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, and admitted to hospital at Chester about three weeks afterwards. Surgeon E. Swift, U. S. A., reported : " Gunshot wound, followed by a dissecting abscess involving the head of the femur and its ligaments. The patient died of pyaemia, September 21, 1863." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1883.
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