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- Newsletter of the International Haskell Family Society
Volume 16, No. 1, March 2007
Charles Albert Haskell, b. 1 January 1839, Graves County, Kentucky, was mustered into Co. D, 2 (Confederate) Kentucky Mounted Infantry at Camp Boone, Tennessee, 1 July 1861, having travelled 150 miles to enlist. He was appointed 1st Sergeant on 10 Jan 1863 and promoted to Brevet 2nd Lieutenant on 15 Jan 1864, captured on 16 Feb 1862 and exchanged at Vicksburg, 20 Sep 1862, via the steamer Jno H. Done [sic] by order of Major General William T. Sherman. He surrendered with his unit at Washington, Georgia, 6 May 1865, and subscribed to the Oath of Allegiance, 17 May 1865, for release and return home. He was awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor, conferred by General Order 131/3 dated 3 October 1863 for gallantry at the Battle of Murfreesboro, 31 December - 3January 1863. (Confederate losses: 1,294 killed; 7,945 wounded; Union losses: 1,677 killed; 7,543 wounded.)
After the war, Charles became a Methodist minister of some note in Mayfield, Kentucky. In 1880 he was living at Panther Creek, by 1900 at Brinkley, Kentucky. Kate Travis Haskell applied for her Confederate Widow's Pension on 9 January 1913, then residing in Hickman County, Kentucky.
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1838 - 1911 (73 years)
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