Charles Augustus THOMPSON

Notes:

Excerpt from "The Whitney Family of Connecticur":.. He was a student in kalamazoo College, Michigan and there enlisted in Co. C, 17th Reg. of Michigan volunteers; was captured at Fredericksburg, VA., while bearing the State colors; and was imprisoned at Andersonville for eight months, until, being very ill and reduced almost to a skeleton, he was exchanged and sent home.

Charles married Helen TUTTLE on 12 May 1869 in West Rutland, Vermont. Helen was born about 1849 in Clarendon, Vermont; died after Apr 1876. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]