CHESTNUT, CHARLES K (VETERAN CSA) - Webster County, Louisiana | CHARLES K (VETERAN CSA) CHESTNUT - Louisiana Gravestone Photos

Charles K (Veteran CSA) CHESTNUT

Walker Cemetery
Webster County,
Louisiana

PRIVATE CSA
Company C 9 Regiment Louisiana Infantry (Bienville Blues)
Civil War Confederate
April 1840 - March 2, 1922

He enlisted March 8, 1862 in Mt. Lebanon, Bienville Parish, Louisiana. His name appeared on a Muster-In Roll in Gordonsville, Virginia, as mustering into service on April 25, 1862. He remained present for duty until July 2, 1863, when he was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was sent to the hospital for treatment of his wounds and returned to duty on September 29, 1863. The November-December 1863 Company Muster Roll showed him to be unfit for duty due to the wounds he had received at Gettysburg. He was listed on the January-February 1864 Company Muster Roll as present for duty once again. On March 15, 1864, he was detailed to the 2nd Corps Hospital, Army of Northern Virginia, as a nurse. His name appeared on a Roll of Prisoners of War at Charlottesville, Virginia on May 17, 1965. He was paroled at Charlottesville on May 19, 1865.

Confederate Pension Application Index Database, Reel CP1.27 ~ Microdex 2 ~ Sequence 25
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, The National Archives, Publication M320, Roll 0203

(Photo courtesy of Sue McCrary)

Contributed on 6/11/22 by bridges1026
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Submitted: 6/11/22 • Approved: 6/12/22 • Last Updated: 6/15/22 • R372604-G0-S3

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