Charles K. Graham
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Charles Kinnaird Graham (June 3, 1824 – April 15, 1889)[1] was a sailor in the antebellum United States Navy, attorney, and later a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As a civil engineer, he helped plan and lay out Central Park in New York City.
Graham entered the Navy when he was 17 and later served as a midshipman in the Gulf of Mexico during the Mexican-American War in the late 1840s. He was 39 years old when he led a brigade as a brigadier general in the III Corps during the Battle of Gettysburg, where he was wounded in the hip and shoulders on July 2, 1863. Graham was captured during the battle and subsequently sent to a prison camp in Richmond until he was exchanged (for James L. Kemper) on September 19, 1863.[1]
He died of pneumonia in Lakewood, New Jersey, and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York City.
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- Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography.
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