Swasey, Charles Dudley
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 29, credited to Montpelier, VT Unit(s): 13th VT INF Service: enl 8/25/62, m/i 10/10/62, Pvt, Co. I, 13th VT INF, m/o 7/21/63 [College: UVM 59] See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 05/18/1833, Stowe, VT Death: 06/01/1865 Burial: Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier, VT Marker/Plot: Lot 454 Gravestone photographer: Charles D. Swasey Findagrave Memorial #: 65938098 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 8/25/1864; mother Lydia, 1/6/1890, VT Portrait?: 13th History College?: UVM 59 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: 13th Vt. History off-site DESCENDANTS Great Granduncle of Charles Dudley Swasey, Enterprise, AL (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice  Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. |
Biography
CHARLES D. SWAZEY volunteered August 25, 1899 from Montpelier and joined Company IHe was a practicing attorney with good prospects of success in his chosen profession. He served his country bravely and well and returned to his home when his term of enlistment had expired with health impaired and succumbed to consumption a few years later.
Source: Sturtevant's Pictorial History, Thirteenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, War of 1861-1865, p. 683
Obituary
LAMOILLE NEWSDEALER: JUNE 7,1865
Chas. D. Swasey, Esq. of this village, died at Minneapolis, Minn., June 2d. His disease was consumption, contracted during his service in Virginia, in Co. I, 13th Vermont Volunteers. He was a member of Washington County Bar, a young man of fine talents, and was greatly beloved by all who knew him.----Montpelier Freeman
Submitted by Deanna French
13th Vermont Regimental History