Charles G. W. Macgill
Name: Charles G. W. Macgill
Affiliation: Confederate
Unit: 2nd VA Inf. (Regt. Surg., Stonewall Brigade)
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Hagerstown, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 07/01/1863
Rank at End of Service: Surgeon
Notes:
Both Dr. Charles G. W. MacGill and his father, Dr. Charles MacGill, were ardent Southern sympathizers. 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 then accompanied the Confederates on the retreat back to Virginia and became surgeons in the Confederate Army.
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).
