작품 상세

Civil War DogTags Civil War Identification Dog Tag for Charles T. Abare who Enlisted 8/9/1862 then "K" Co. New York 118th Infantry Abraham Lincoln Portrait "WAR OF 1861" Civil War Identification Dog Tag for Charles T.(reffle) Abare, DRUMMER, who Enlisted 8/9/1862 then Mustered into K Company, New York 118th Volunteer Union Army Infantry, Fine or better. At 21 years of age, on August 9th, 1862 Charles T. Abare enlisted at Peru, New York as a private and om August 13th, 1862, he mustered into "K" Co. New York 118th New York Volunteers Infantry of the Union Army. Abare was made a Drummer on August 30th, 1862 and was Mustered Out on June 13th, 1865 ar Richmond, Virginia. Abare was born on January 24th 1841 and died on December 22nd, 1898, being buried at Mount Carmel Cemetary in Ware, Mass. There is a known tintype Photograph of Charles Treffle Abare playing the drum, with his wife sitting beside him along with two other family members. Chestnut in color with expected wear from use for the grade. A copy of which, along with other printed documentation, will be included with this lot. We ship what we sell. By the mid-August of 1862, Charles had made arrangements for his son to be cared for and had enlisted in the 118th Infantry in Peru under the name Charles T. Abare to serve for three years. He was mustered into Company K, under Captain John S. Stone, in Plattsburgh on August 14th and, the day before the regiment left for Washington, was appointed drummer and Edward Thomas became the fifer. There were 101 men in Company K and 1,040 in the regiment as a whole. The 118th served in the defenses of Washington until April 1863, then sailed to the Virginia Peninsula and fought until the end of July. They then performed garrison and guard duty for several months at Yorktown, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Newport News, VA. Starting in March 1864, they took part in the campaign against Richmond with Gen. Butler's Army of the James. Between March and the end of October, the 118th suffered over 450 casualties. They stayed in the trenches before Petersburg during the winter of 1864-65 and were at its fall on April 2, 1865. The regiment claimed to have been the first organized Federal infantry to enter the city. They were mustered out on June 13, 1865, at which time Charles was a private having been returned to ranks early in his military career. He was in the military for two years, ten months and four days.