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Sgt Hiram Robert Charles

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Sgt Hiram Robert Charles

Birth
West Millgrove, Wood County, Ohio, USA
Death
9 Apr 1901 (aged 61)
Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block B, Lot 48, Space 6.
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21ST OVI COMPANY C
ENLISTED: 25 APRIL 1861
DISCHARGED: 12 AUGUST 1861
GAR 100TH OVI COMPANY A
ENLISTED: 18 JULY 1862
PROMOTED TO SERGEANT AND 1ST SERGEANT
CAPTURED: SEPTEMBER 8, 1863 AT LIMESTONE STATION
RETURNED TO DUTY: MAY 1865
MUSTERED OUT: 20 JUNE 1865
HIRAM SUFFERED FROM HEART TROUBLE, CHRONIC DIARRHEA, SCURVY, NEURALGIA, CATARRH, PILES, LOSS OF RIGHT THUMB, AND WAS A PRISONER OF WAR 464 DAYS

At a bridge in Limestone Station, Tennessee on September 8, 1863, the 100th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, engaged more than a thousand Confederates led by General Alfred E. Jackson. Out of ammunition and surrounded, the 100th was forced to surrender. The Union casualties were six dead, many wounded, and over two-hundred and fifty soldiers captured. Eighty-five out of this last number died in Confederate prisons.

Hiram was the son of James M. and Ellen Eunice Donaldson Charles and had siblings Mary, Franklin, James, John, Albius, William, Augustus, and Mary. His parents were from New York and Ohio. He married Mary J. Cook first and they had Lillian (1874)and Mabel (1886). Following her death, he married Mary's sister, Frances A. Cook on 11 November 1891 in Monroe, Michigan. Hiram was a school teacher.
21ST OVI COMPANY C
ENLISTED: 25 APRIL 1861
DISCHARGED: 12 AUGUST 1861
GAR 100TH OVI COMPANY A
ENLISTED: 18 JULY 1862
PROMOTED TO SERGEANT AND 1ST SERGEANT
CAPTURED: SEPTEMBER 8, 1863 AT LIMESTONE STATION
RETURNED TO DUTY: MAY 1865
MUSTERED OUT: 20 JUNE 1865
HIRAM SUFFERED FROM HEART TROUBLE, CHRONIC DIARRHEA, SCURVY, NEURALGIA, CATARRH, PILES, LOSS OF RIGHT THUMB, AND WAS A PRISONER OF WAR 464 DAYS

At a bridge in Limestone Station, Tennessee on September 8, 1863, the 100th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, engaged more than a thousand Confederates led by General Alfred E. Jackson. Out of ammunition and surrounded, the 100th was forced to surrender. The Union casualties were six dead, many wounded, and over two-hundred and fifty soldiers captured. Eighty-five out of this last number died in Confederate prisons.

Hiram was the son of James M. and Ellen Eunice Donaldson Charles and had siblings Mary, Franklin, James, John, Albius, William, Augustus, and Mary. His parents were from New York and Ohio. He married Mary J. Cook first and they had Lillian (1874)and Mabel (1886). Following her death, he married Mary's sister, Frances A. Cook on 11 November 1891 in Monroe, Michigan. Hiram was a school teacher.

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