Charles S. Wainwright

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Charles Shiels Wainwright (December 31, 1826 – September 13, 1907) was a farmer and artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Wainwright was born in New York City, the brother of future doctor and Union general, William P. Wainwright.

Wainwright was commissioned a major in the 1st New York Artillery on October 17, 1861, and served throughout the war as an artillery officer in the Army of the Potomac.

He was promoted to brevet brigadier general on August 1, 1864. He was the author of A Diary of Battle: The Personal Journals of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, 1861 – 1865, published posthumously in 1962.

Wainwright died in Washington, D.C., and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.

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  • Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
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