Charles Macgill
Name: Charles Macgill
Affiliation: Confederate
Unit: Lynchburg Hospital
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Hagerstown, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: n/a
Rank at End of Service: General Major; Surgeon
Notes:
Both Dr. Charles MacGill and his son, Dr. Charles G. W. MacGill, were ardent Southern sympathizers. The elder Dr. MacGill was arrested in Sept. 1861 for his outspoken views. He several times refused to take the oath of allegiance as a condition of being released and he remained in prison until November 1862. When the Confederates invaded Pennsylvania in 1863, the MacGills set up a hospital in Hagerstown for Confederate soldiers wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg. Both MacGills than accompanied the Confederates on the retreat back to Virginia and became surgeons in the Confederate Army.Died in Richmond on 5/5/1881.
Source(s):
Daniel D. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1986), 216; Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998); The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1889) Series 2, Vol. 114, Part 1, 668, 748.
