CARLOS WALDRON ROWE -- 77th INFANTRYWELL-DOCUMENTED LIFE - On October 1, 1861, Carlos Waldron Rowe, son ofWilliam Dayton Rowe and Sophia Kellogg, and 42 other men enlisted inKeeseville in the 77th Infantry. He was born in Lewis, NY on May 3,1835 -- that made him 26 old at the time of his enlistment. Afterdrilling until the end of November, the regiment left for Washingtonwith Corporal Rowe. Like many regiments, they stayed in that city untilApril the next year and then were sent to the Siege of Yorktown.Carlos was promoted to orderly sergeant on June 1, 1862, then to 1stSergeant a month later. On February 25, 1863, he was mustered in as 2ndLieutenant after fighting through Virginia and Maryland. Their wordbattle in 1862 was Antietam on September 17th where they sustained 42casualties.The beginning of 1863 was bad for them and they had 83 casualties atMarye's Heights. 1864 was a very bad year for the regiment withcasualties in almost every one of their engagements. Most of theirbattles were in Virginia and they lost over 200 men. Everything wentwell for Carlos until he was captured in action at Spotsylvania CourtHouse on May 10, 1864. He managed to escape and was given 4 day's leavein Washington to aid in his recovery. He mustered out with his company,Company I, on December 13, 1864. At the end of his 3-year term. Of the1,541 men who passed through the regiment, they had 481 killed, mortallywounded, injured, missing or captured -- about 31%.Luckily for us, his descendants kept a lot of Carlos' belongings afterhe died in 1927. Much of his memorabilia can be seen at the New YorkState Military Museum site at: https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/77thInf/Rowe/77thInfRoweCollection.htm\At CCHA, we have Carlos' wooden campaign trunk.His obituary was in the Plattsburgh Sentinel on April 5, 1927"KEESEVILLE -- Carlos Rowe, an old Civil War veteran, answered the lastroll call Thursday morning, March 31, after a long illness.Mr. Rowe was born in the town of Lewis May 3, 1830. Funeral serviceswere held from the Baptist Church on Saturday afternoon. Interment inEvergreen Cemetery. If you go to Evergreen to see his grave, you'll bedisappointed. His grave is at the Port Douglas Cemetery where he isburied with his wife, Lydia A. Andrews, and his daughter, Josephine.
