{"id":85320,"date":"2020-01-16T22:14:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T03:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?page_id=85320"},"modified":"2020-12-01T14:26:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T19:26:28","slug":"civil-war-diary-of-charles-h-lynch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/civil-war-diary-of-charles-h-lynch\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Diary of Charles H. Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CharlesIn the 1870 Census, five years after his diary ended\u2014and the end of the Civil War\u2014, Charles Lynch lived in Hartford, Connecticut at the home of his in-laws, Horace and Frances Cooley. He worked as a boiler and steam system stationary engineer<\/a>. He had married the Cooley’s daughter, Frances Elizabeth, 19 years old in the 1870 census, with a son who was born in September, 1869. They two had three children, one of them dying at the age of ten. Frances died May 5, 1920. A daughter, also Frances (Fannie), was living with her Charles in the 1920 census. Charles died on July 29, 1924, still working as a stationary engineer.<\/p>\n

From the end of Lynch’s book, The Civil War Diary, 1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch, 18th Conn. Vol’s, <\/em>printed privately in 1915:<\/h3>\n

I served with the 3d Corps, Army of the Potomac, in the campaign in western Maryland, following the battle of Gettysburg, up to July 20th,1863.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Membership in our company, C, on leaving home for the war<\/td>\n98<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Recruits added<\/td>\n22
\n___<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/td>\n120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Killed in battle, died from wounds and disease and in rebel prison<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wounded<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
In prison during our service<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Some were taken prisoner twice. A few members were held prisoners for two years and died in Andersonville.<\/p>\n

Passed through the following battles and skirmishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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1863<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

June<\/td>\n13, 14., 15, Winchester, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n15, Summit Point, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n16, Carter\u2019s Farm, near Winchester, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
July<\/td>\nBoonsborough, Md.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFalling Waters, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1864<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May…….<\/span><\/td>\n15, New Market, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June<\/td>\n3, Harrisonburg, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n5, Piedmont, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n5, Mt. Crawford, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n11, Lexington, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n14., Buchanan, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n15, Liberty, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n17, Quaker Church, Va., near Lynchburg.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n18, Lynchburg, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n21, Salem, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
July<\/td>\n10, Hedgersville, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n18, Snickers Ford, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n23, Kearnstown, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n24, Kearnstown, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n24., Winchester, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n25, Martinsburg, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
August<\/td>\n11, Stoney Point, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n12, Middletown, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n12, Cedar Creek, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n13, Hupp\u2019s Hill, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n21, Opequon, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n21, Smith?eld, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n22, Charlestown, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n22-26, Halltown, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSeptember 3, Berryville, Va. Our last real battle.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

During the campaign of 1864., from May 1st to November 1st, the 18th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, are credited with having marched over thirteen hundred miles, and I marched every step of it. Did not lose an hour\u2019s duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the 1870 Census, five years after his diary ended\u2014and the end of the Civil War\u2014, Charles Lynch lived in Hartford, Connecticut at the home of his in-laws, Horace and Frances Cooley. He worked as a boiler and steam system stationary engineer. He had married the Cooley’s daughter, Frances Elizabeth, 19 years old in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85320","page","type-page","status-publish"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}