Charles August
Name: Charles August
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st PA Light Arty., 43rd Regt.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 07/27/1861
Company: Battery A
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Chambersburg, PA; Transfers and Other Service: From Co. I., 7th P. R. C. 08-01-1862; Captured: Centreville 9/2/1862; Missing from Bull Run 8/30/1862; Prison: Paroled, Centreville,Va. 9/6/1862; Place of death: Harewood Hosp., Washington, D. C.
Source(s):
Soldiers’ Records for Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on the website “Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/dossiers).
