"Charles D. Barney, 101, Civil War veteran and former banking partner of Jay Cooke, Civil War financier, died Tuesday night at his home in Elkins Park, Pa. Mr. Barney was a native of Sandusky, Ohio, and left the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., to volunteer in the Union Army after his brother Henry, had been killed. He helped man the Potomac River fortifications at the time of Confederate General Jubal Early's raid on Washington in 1864." - THE HANCOCK HERALD, HANCOCK, N.Y., OCTOBER 28, 1920.
"Charles D. Barney, 101, Civil War veteran and former banking partner of Jay Cooke, Civil War financier, died Tuesday night at his home in Elkins Park, Pa. Mr. Barney was a native of Sandusky, Ohio, and left the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., to volunteer in the Union Army after his brother Henry, had been killed. He helped man the Potomac River fortifications at the time of Confederate General Jubal Early's raid on Washington in 1864." - THE HANCOCK HERALD, HANCOCK, N.Y., OCTOBER 28, 1920.
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