Vermont Civil War, Lest We Forget

Individual Record

Battles, Charles W.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 18, credited to Braintree, VT
Unit(s): 8th VT INF
Service: enl 11/25/61, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. G, 8th VT INF, pow, Vicksburg 9/4/62, prld 11/13/62, m/o 6/22/64

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VITALS

Birth: abt 1843, West Braintree, MA
Death: 02/16/1910

Burial: Edson Cemetery, Lowell, MA
Marker/Plot: Custer/Garfield - 4th/5th
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan

Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, death date/location, widow Hattie
Portrait?: Unknown
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: None

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BURIAL:
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Tombstone

Edson Cemetery, Lowell, MA
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Obituary

Charles Battles, a former resident of this town but later of Lowell, Mass., died the 15th. inst. at the General Hospital of that city after an operation for a mastoid abscess to the left ear. He was a great sufferer for two weeks and one day when death came to his release. Mr. Battles is survived by a second wife of a few months, and one daughter, Mrs, Myra Clinton of Lowell, and relatives in this state. He was a veteran of the Civil War. His age was 86 years.

Middlebury Register, Feb. 25. 1910

Courtesy of Deanna French.

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