When Charles W Hart was born on March 22, 1847, in Preble, Ohio, his father, Robert, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 26. He married Hannah Greene on April 3, 1866, in Peoria, Illinois. They had two children during their marriage. He died on July 24, 1916, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 69, and was buried there.

Civil War: Company E, 112th Illinois Infantry

Databases of Illinois Veterans Index, 1775-1995
Name: Charles W Hart
Rank: Private
Company: E
Unit: 112th Illinois Infantry
Height: 5' 6
Hair: BROWN
Eyes: BLUE
Complexion: LIGHT
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Farmer
Birth Date: Abt 1846
Birth Place: Preble CO, OH
War: Civil War
War Years: 1861-1865
Service Entry Age: 16
Service Entry Date: 15 Aug 1862
Service Entry Place: Wyoming, IL
Joined By Whom: S F OTMAN
Period: 3 YRS
Muster In Date: 20 Sep 1862
Muster In Place: Peoria, IL
Muster Out Date: 5 Jun 1865
Muster Out Place: Springfield, IL
Muster Out By Whom: CPT HALL
Remarks: PAROLED PRISONER
Residence Place: Goshen, Stark CO, IL
Record Source: Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls

Name: Hart, CHARLES W.
Alternate spelling of last name: Hert
Year born: 1846
Rank: PRIVATE
Company: E
Arm: Infantry
Regiment number: 112th Illinois Infantry
Date captured: 9/18/1863
Location captured: Cleveland, Tennessee

Fate:
Sent to Camp Lawton, Millen, Georgia, November 11, 1864. Mustered out June 5, 1865.

The Regiment actively participated in all the campaigns in East Tennessee, in 1863, and, up to February 4, 1864, sharing in the glory of redeeming that truly loyal people, and in wresting what was regarded as the key to the rebellion from rebel rule. Being always at the front and often at great distance from the main body of the army, it was kept constantly on the alert, and compelled to perform the severest duties, always on short rations.

Its operations in East Tennessee were at Kingston, Post Oak Springs, Athens, Calhoun, Charleston, Cleveland, Sweetwater, Philadelphia, Loudon, Campbell's Station, Knoxville, Bean Station, Blane's Cross Roads, Dandridge, Sevinville, Fair Gardens, Kelly's Ford, Flat Creek Cap, and other places, at many of which it was engaged in numerous skirmishes and battles, and being constantly in the presence of the enemy. At Cleveland, one (1) Captain was killed, several men wounded, and about twenty (20) captured in a skirmish.

Above info added 2017 by SUVCW

Charles W. Hart was a resident of Goshen, Illinois, when he enlisted as a private at Tuton, Illinois, on August 15, 1862. He was mustered into Company E, 112th Illinois Infantry, on September 20, 1862. He was captured and held as a POW at Andersonville, Georgia. He was mustered out at Springfield, Illinois, on June 5, 1865. After the war he was a miner in Cochise County, Arizona, in the 1880's. He was a charter member of Tombstone's Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1881. He filed for a Civil War veteran's pension in July 1890 and received certificate No. 613,081. He was a widower and a miner in California when his health failed him and he was admitted to the Sawtelle Soldiers' Home on July 8, 1913. He died at the Sawtelle Home three years later. Charles W. Hart was survived by his daughter, Mrs. Mary J. Henderson, of Waterloo, Iowa.


Biography by Steve