Pvt. Charles (Chandler) L. Seward

Pvt. Charles (Chandler) L. Seward

    Listed on the 1860 Federal Census #724/4850 as a 52 year old Farmer from New York living in Plato, Ill's.

 Co. B       36th Ill. Dragoon's

   Re-Designated as;

Co. K       15th Ill. Cav.

Plato Cavalry

   Enlisted, Aug. 17, 1861

   Residence,Plato, Ill's.

   Notice: Sept. 11, 1861 issue Elgin's Weekly Gazette.
   With the Fox River Regiment, in camp below Aurora, all our readers are well acquainted.  From the moment of its conception to the present hour it has gone right on to a full and complete success.  It is now 1200 strong and will, no doubt, be ordered to St. Louis in a few days there to be equipped and put into the Grand Army.

    Mustered In, Sept. 23, 1861
   Discharged, April ?, 1862 due to disability.

      Known Actions; 
Ft. Henry, Tenn.,       Feb. 7, 1862
Ft. Donnelson, Tenn.       Feb. 11, 1862