Charles registered for the Civil War draft together with his older brother, Philander, on July 1, 1863 while residing at Lakeville, Dakota, Minnesota. Charles was mustered in to service on February 24, 1864, when the Second Minnesota Infantry Regiment returned to St Paul, Minnesota on furlough, and took on about 150 new recruits before returning to the front lines by railroad in early March. Union army records state that Charles died of disease in Chicago on March 28, 1864. The Second Minnesota had already returned to the front by that date, so Charles must have fallen ill in transit and disembarked for treatment at Chicago where he subsequently died. Possibly he received care at the then new Civil War Soldiers' Home and was interred in their cemetery, or in one of the many other local cemeteries whose civil war dead were later relocated to the Mound City National Cemetery in Pulaski County, Illinois. The modern National Veterans Administration, Veterans Affairs, Grave Locator has no record of Charles' burial location.
Charles registered for the Civil War draft together with his older brother, Philander, on July 1, 1863 while residing at Lakeville, Dakota, Minnesota. Charles was mustered in to service on February 24, 1864, when the Second Minnesota Infantry Regiment returned to St Paul, Minnesota on furlough, and took on about 150 new recruits before returning to the front lines by railroad in early March. Union army records state that Charles died of disease in Chicago on March 28, 1864. The Second Minnesota had already returned to the front by that date, so Charles must have fallen ill in transit and disembarked for treatment at Chicago where he subsequently died. Possibly he received care at the then new Civil War Soldiers' Home and was interred in their cemetery, or in one of the many other local cemeteries whose civil war dead were later relocated to the Mound City National Cemetery in Pulaski County, Illinois. The modern National Veterans Administration, Veterans Affairs, Grave Locator has no record of Charles' burial location.
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