Vermont Civil War, Lest We Forget

Individual Record

Dillingham, Charles D.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 25, credited to Waterbury, VT
Unit(s): 2nd VT INF, 8th VT INF
Service: comn CPT, Co. D, 2nd VT INF, 5/20/61 (5/20/61), wdd, Bull Run, 7/21/61 (grazed scalp); pr MAJ, 8th VT INF, 1/18/62 (1/19/62), pr LTC, 12/24/62 (2/2/63), resgd 12/12/63

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VITALS

Birth: 02/18/1837, Vermont
Death: 06/19/1917

Burial: Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, TX
Marker/Plot: Section BHS, Lot 4
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Rebecca Ewing Peterson
Findagrave Memorial #: 104704123

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes
Portrait?: VHS off-site
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)

Remarks: See also: Correspondence at UVM's Center for Digital Initiatives.

DESCENDANTS

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BURIAL:
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Tombstone

Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, TX
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and other veterans who may be buried there.

Photograph from the 8th Infantry history, scanned by Deanna French.

Check out this soldier's correspondence in the "William Wirt Henry" Correspondence" Collection at the UVM Libraries Center for Digital Initiatives "Vermonters in the Civil War" Collection

Obituary

News of the death of Col. Charles Dillingham at Watkins, N. Y. has been received. Col. Dillingham was a brother to Senator Dillingham. He was 80 years of age, and is survived by his widow, one son Edward, and one daughter, Pauline.

Barre Daily Times, June 25, 1917

Courtesy of Deanna French.

Source: VermontCivilWar.Org Database
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