Charles
B. Stevenson was born
in January 1835 in Germantown, Bracken County, Kentucky. He was the son of Stephen Stevenson and Fanny Proctor. Charles was raised on the
family farm in Bracken County.
On June 19, 1861, Charles enlisted for
service in the Civil War, in company D of the Indiana 13th Regiment
Infantry, which was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana. The infantry left the state of Indiana for
West Virginia on July 4, 1861. Charles mustered out on June 20, 1864.
Charles’ military service likely
included the following battles:
Battle of
Rich Mountain, Virginia on July 11, 1861
Battle of
Winchester March 23, 1862
Siege of
Suffolk, Virginia, April 12-May 4 1863
Battle of
Drury's Bluff May 14-16, 1864
Battles
about Cold Harbor June 1-12, 1864
During
service in the war, the Indiana 13th Regiment Infantry lost a total
of 255 men: 3 officers and 104 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded; and 2 officers
and 146 enlisted men by disease.
Charles suffered some injuries during
the war, but was able to go home to his family.
In 1880, he was living in Big Boone, Boone County, Kentucky, near his
mother and siblings, doing farm work.
Charles was
checked in to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton,
Ohio on September 25, 1891. His
diagnosis upon registering at the home was varicose veins on his left leg as
well as varicocele. He was 55 years old
at that time, and described as 5’ 11” tall, with grey hair and eyes.
In 1900, Charles was renting a farm in
Hamilton, Boone County, Kentucky with his brother, James.
On September 2, 1905, Charles was
re-admitted into U.S. National Home
for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio.
Charles B. Stevenson died at St.
Elizabeth’s Hospital in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio on October 29, 1907, at
the age of 72 years. The cause of death
listed was “acute cardiac dilatation.”
His sister, Mary Ann Murphy was notified of her brother’s death the next
day via telegraph.
Notes for Charles B. Stevenson
Birth
& Residence in 1900: Ancestry.com. 1900 United
States Federal Census, Year: 1900; Census Place: Hamilton,
Boone, Kentucky; Roll: 507; Page: 5B; Enumeration
District: 0004; FHL microfilm: 1240507.
Military: Historical
Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
Residence
in 1880: Ancestry.com and The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census,
Year: 1880; Census Place: Big Boone, Boone, Kentucky; Roll: 403; Family
History Film: 1254403; Page: 552B; Enumeration
District: 008; Image: 0311.
Death
& Residence in 1891, 1905: Ancestry.com. U.S. National
Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 [database on-line]. Provo,
UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Original data: Historical
Register of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938;
(National Archives Microfilm Publication M1749, 282 rolls); Records of the
Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington,
D.C.
Infantry
Information: http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unininf1.htm#13th (accessed 15 August 2014)
