A military pension application lists his birthplace as Belcher,NY which is a tiny unincorporated hamlet situated midway between North Argyle and Hebron, about three miles from the center of either town.

He filed for an invalid application #378121 and certificate #214721. Mary applied for a widow's Pension Mar 18, 1910 Application #93160, certificate #701861.

New York State issued death Certificate #11202. It lists the cause of death as Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Charles was a private of the 123rd Regiment, seeing much action in the 3 years of military service during the civil war. He fought at Gettysburg, was in Sherman's March to the sea, and fought on the picket line at Chancellorville. It was there that he was wounded in his leg and foot.

Living conditions and the weather were autrocious during the war. Charles conracted pluminary diseases that left him perminently debilitated. His military pension folder [filed in the US archives] is 120 pages long. It show him living in Argyle, Hebron, NY and Fair Haven, VT among other towns after his military service. He was not able to do any physical labor, and for a while he was a traveling salesman, until he could no longer even do that job. Near the end of his days, he was bed ridden.

A military pension application lists his birthplace as Belcher,NY which is a tiny unincorporated hamlet situated midway between North Argyle and Hebron, about three miles from the center of either town.

He filed for an invalid application #378121 and certificate #214721. Mary applied for a widow's Pension Mar 18, 1910 Application #93160, certificate #701861.

New York State issued death Certificate #11202. It lists the cause of death as Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Charles was a private of the 123rd Regiment, seeing much action in the 3 years of military service during the civil war. He fought at Gettysburg, was in Sherman's March to the sea, and fought on the picket line at Chancellorville. It was there that he was wounded in his leg and foot.

Living conditions and the weather were autrocious during the war. Charles conracted pluminary diseases that left him perminently debilitated. His military pension folder [filed in the US archives] is 120 pages long. It show him living in Argyle, Hebron, NY and Fair Haven, VT among other towns after his military service. He was not able to do any physical labor, and for a while he was a traveling salesman, until he could no longer even do that job. Near the end of his days, he was bed ridden.