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Buxton, Charles
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 28, credited to Rockingham, VT
Unit(s): 11th VT INF
Service: comn CPT, Co. G, 11th VT INF, 8/12/62 (9/3/62), pr MAJ, 9/2/64 (10/3/64), kia, Winchester, 9/19/64
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VITALS
Birth: 03/01/1834, Londonderry, VT
Death: 09/19/1864
Burial: Immanuel Cemetery, Bellows Falls, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Carolyn Adams
Findagrave Memorial #: 36008036
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, widow Sophia W., 11/12/1863?
Portrait?: Gibson Collection, Italo Collection, Jones Collection, Guber Collection off-site, VHS Collections
College?: Not Found
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: Pension date is probably a typo; would comfortably fit if it were 11/12/1864
Webmaster's Note: The 11th Vermont Infantry was also known as the 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery; the names were used interchangably for most of its career
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BURIAL:
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Immanuel Cemetery, Bellows Falls, VT
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Obituary
The funeral of Major Charles Buxton was attended in Bellows Falls on Tuesday of last week with Masonic honors. His only child was buried at the same time and in the same grave with the father. The child died just a month, to a day, from the time its father was killed in battle.
Source: St. Johnsbury Caledonian, Jan. 13, 1865
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.
