Charles Decided to enlist. He walked from the farm near Sextonville, Wisconsin to Madison Wisconsin to enlist and was a private in Company B of the 20th Wisconsin infantry in the Civil War .His company saw action at the battle of Prairie Grove, AK on Dec 7th, 1862. While picking berries in the woods for the camp mass, a sharpshooter at an outpost, saw flashes reflected by the sun on his pale, Confederate sharpshooter shot Pvt. Charles Atwood in calf and also shot off his thumb. Charles played dead until nightfall at which point he was able to crawled back to his camp.
Being a wounded veteran in this battle doubtless played a role in his later alcoholism, leaving his pregnant wife and the two children at the time. Eventually, he and first wife Elizabeth Davis divorced, she unable to care for the three children they were giving up for adoption to 3 separate families.
Name: Charles M Atwood
Service Info.: CO. B, 20TH WISC. INFANTRY
Death Date: 23 Jan 1917
Interment Date: 23 Jan 1917
Cemetery: Hot Springs National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: VA Medical Center Hot Springs, SD 57747
Buried At: Section 5 Row 1 Site 6
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 about Charles Marshall Atwood
Name: Charles Marshall Atwood
SAR Membership: 46067
Birth Date: 24 Oct 1841 on the farm near Potsdam, NewYork
Death Date: 23 Jan 1917 Hot Springs, South Dakota
Father: William Harrison Atwood
Mother: Charlotte Thankful Reynolds
Spouse: Elizabeth Ann Davis
Children: Marvin Ashley Atwood- McCann
Elijah Francis Atwood- Stevens
Lillian Amelia Atwood- Thayer Frisbie
updated 2024
Charles Decided to enlist. He walked from the farm near Sextonville, Wisconsin to Madison Wisconsin to enlist and was a private in Company B of the 20th Wisconsin infantry in the Civil War .His company saw action at the battle of Prairie Grove, AK on Dec 7th, 1862. While picking berries in the woods for the camp mass, a sharpshooter at an outpost, saw flashes reflected by the sun on his pale, Confederate sharpshooter shot Pvt. Charles Atwood in calf and also shot off his thumb. Charles played dead until nightfall at which point he was able to crawled back to his camp.
Being a wounded veteran in this battle doubtless played a role in his later alcoholism, leaving his pregnant wife and the two children at the time. Eventually, he and first wife Elizabeth Davis divorced, she unable to care for the three children they were giving up for adoption to 3 separate families.
Name: Charles M Atwood
Service Info.: CO. B, 20TH WISC. INFANTRY
Death Date: 23 Jan 1917
Interment Date: 23 Jan 1917
Cemetery: Hot Springs National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: VA Medical Center Hot Springs, SD 57747
Buried At: Section 5 Row 1 Site 6
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 about Charles Marshall Atwood
Name: Charles Marshall Atwood
SAR Membership: 46067
Birth Date: 24 Oct 1841 on the farm near Potsdam, NewYork
Death Date: 23 Jan 1917 Hot Springs, South Dakota
Father: William Harrison Atwood
Mother: Charlotte Thankful Reynolds
Spouse: Elizabeth Ann Davis
Children: Marvin Ashley Atwood- McCann
Elijah Francis Atwood- Stevens
Lillian Amelia Atwood- Thayer Frisbie
updated 2024
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