Contributor 47160733 provided:
Father: Charles Dwight Upson B: 8/20/1821 & D: 11/10/1909
Mother: Martha Augusta Hotchkiss B: 1/11/1825 & D: 6/8/1873
Pvt Charles A. Upson died in a Confederate POW camp at Florence South Carolina on Dec 2, 1864. Was initially burried there. He MAY have been removed after the war to CT for reburial. He ran away from home at age 15 to Join the Army. He was WIA at Chancellorsville with a bayonet wound to the elbow. His Grandfather L. W. Upson wrote a letter to Pres Lincoln asking that Charles A. Upson be moved up on the exchange list due to his young age and illegal enlistment.
Contributor 47160733 provided:
New Haven
January 11, 1865
To His Excellency A. Lincoln, Pres U.S.A.
Dear Sir-January 11, 1865
To His Excellency A. Lincoln, Pres U.S.A.
Dear Sir-
I have a grandson who enlisted before he was 15 years of age in the 14th Regt C. V. Company B. His three years will be up next August. He was taken Prisoner at the Battle of the Wilderness last May 6, 7 & 8th. We have just learned by an exchanged prisoner that about the first of Dec last he was very low with starvation only.
If he is yet alive can there be anything done to release him from the grasp of the traitors & tyrants & murders by the whole sale, if so, I know you will be glad to do it. Will you be so kind as to let us know and oblige many friends and relatives. His name is Charles A. Upson.
May the Lord preserve him to us.
Very truly yours, L. M. Upson
Response from the War Department
May 23, 1865
Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 11th Inst addressed to the President requesting an early exchange of your grandson Charles A. Upson of Company C, 14th Connecticut Vols, I am instructed to state that his case will receive every attention possible in the present condition of the country.
Very T Y
L. H. P.
A. A. G.
Contributor 47160733 provided:
Father: Charles Dwight Upson B: 8/20/1821 & D: 11/10/1909
Mother: Martha Augusta Hotchkiss B: 1/11/1825 & D: 6/8/1873
Pvt Charles A. Upson died in a Confederate POW camp at Florence South Carolina on Dec 2, 1864. Was initially burried there. He MAY have been removed after the war to CT for reburial. He ran away from home at age 15 to Join the Army. He was WIA at Chancellorsville with a bayonet wound to the elbow. His Grandfather L. W. Upson wrote a letter to Pres Lincoln asking that Charles A. Upson be moved up on the exchange list due to his young age and illegal enlistment.
Contributor 47160733 provided:
New Haven
January 11, 1865
To His Excellency A. Lincoln, Pres U.S.A.
Dear Sir-January 11, 1865
To His Excellency A. Lincoln, Pres U.S.A.
Dear Sir-
I have a grandson who enlisted before he was 15 years of age in the 14th Regt C. V. Company B. His three years will be up next August. He was taken Prisoner at the Battle of the Wilderness last May 6, 7 & 8th. We have just learned by an exchanged prisoner that about the first of Dec last he was very low with starvation only.
If he is yet alive can there be anything done to release him from the grasp of the traitors & tyrants & murders by the whole sale, if so, I know you will be glad to do it. Will you be so kind as to let us know and oblige many friends and relatives. His name is Charles A. Upson.
May the Lord preserve him to us.
Very truly yours, L. M. Upson
Response from the War Department
May 23, 1865
Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 11th Inst addressed to the President requesting an early exchange of your grandson Charles A. Upson of Company C, 14th Connecticut Vols, I am instructed to state that his case will receive every attention possible in the present condition of the country.
Very T Y
L. H. P.
A. A. G.
Contributor 47160733 provided:
Contributor 47160733 provided:
Father: Charles Dwight Upson B: 8/20/1821 & D: 11/10/1909
Mother: Martha Augusta Hotchkiss B: 1/11/1825 & D: 6/8/1873
Pvt Charles A. Upson died in a Confederate POW camp at Florence South Carolina on Dec 2, 1864. Was initially burried there. He MAY have been removed after the war to CT for reburial. He ran away from home at age 15 to Join the Army. He was WIA at Chancellorsville with a bayonet wound to the elbow. His Grandfather L. W. Upson wrote a letter to Pres Lincoln asking that Charles A. Upson be moved up on the exchange list due to his young age and illegal enlistment.
Contributor 47160733 provided:
New Haven
January 11, 1865
To His Excellency A. Lincoln, Pres U.S.A.
Dear Sir-January 11, 1865
To His Excellency A. Lincoln, Pres U.S.A.
Dear Sir-
I have a grandson who enlisted before he was 15 years of age in the 14th Regt C. V. Company B. His three years will be up next August. He was taken Prisoner at the Battle of the Wilderness last May 6, 7 & 8th. We have just learned by an exchanged prisoner that about the first of Dec last he was very low with starvation only.
If he is yet alive can there be anything done to release him from the grasp of the traitors & tyrants & murders by the whole sale, if so, I know you will be glad to do it. Will you be so kind as to let us know and oblige many friends and relatives. His name is Charles A. Upson.
May the Lord preserve him to us.
Very truly yours, L. M. Upson
Response from the War Department
May 23, 1865
Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 11th Inst addressed to the President requesting an early exchange of your grandson Charles A. Upson of Company C, 14th Connecticut Vols, I am instructed to state that his case will receive every attention possible in the present condition of the country.
Very T Y
L. H. P.
A. A. G.
Contributor 47160733 provided:
Father: Charles Dwight Upson B: 8/20/1821 & D: 11/10/1909
Mother: Martha Augusta Hotchkiss B: 1/11/1825 & D: 6/8/1873
Pvt Charles A. Upson died in a Confederate POW camp at Florence South Carolina on Dec 2, 1864. Was initially burried there. He MAY have been removed after the war to CT for reburial. He ran away from home at age 15 to Join the Army. He was WIA at Chancellorsville with a bayonet wound to the elbow. His Grandfather L. W. Upson wrote a letter to Pres Lincoln asking that Charles A. Upson be moved up on the exchange list due to his young age and illegal enlistment.
Contributor 47160733 provided:
New Haven
January 11, 1865
To His Excellency A. Lincoln, Pres U.S.A.
Dear Sir-January 11, 1865
To His Excellency A. Lincoln, Pres U.S.A.
Dear Sir-
I have a grandson who enlisted before he was 15 years of age in the 14th Regt C. V. Company B. His three years will be up next August. He was taken Prisoner at the Battle of the Wilderness last May 6, 7 & 8th. We have just learned by an exchanged prisoner that about the first of Dec last he was very low with starvation only.
If he is yet alive can there be anything done to release him from the grasp of the traitors & tyrants & murders by the whole sale, if so, I know you will be glad to do it. Will you be so kind as to let us know and oblige many friends and relatives. His name is Charles A. Upson.
May the Lord preserve him to us.
Very truly yours, L. M. Upson
Response from the War Department
May 23, 1865
Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 11th Inst addressed to the President requesting an early exchange of your grandson Charles A. Upson of Company C, 14th Connecticut Vols, I am instructed to state that his case will receive every attention possible in the present condition of the country.
Very T Y
L. H. P.
A. A. G.
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