CHARLESOLCOTT -- 192nd INFANTRYDIED WHEN HE RETURNED HOME - By the time Charles Olcott, the 19-year-oldson of Chancellor Olcott and his second wife, Fidelia Whitney, enlistedin the 192nd Infantry, his brother, Harmon, had been dead for over ayear and a half and had been buried twice. Harmon had been in the 7thU. S. Infantry and had been buried in Fredericksburg where he had beenkilled on July 4, 1863, and then reburied in the Antietam NationalCemetery in Antietam.Charles enlisted on April 12, 1865, after the surrender of General Lee.Nine men who were unassigned to a company in the 192nd. performed someregimental clean-up duties at Hart Island off the Bronx shore and theymustered out on May 4, 1865. He returned to Peru, where he was born, anddied in June. He was probably buried in Adgate Cemetery at Au SableChasm. One of the other nine men died of disease on Hart Island and wasburied in the Cypress Hills National Cemetery on the mainland near theisland.To read more on Hart Island, go to:http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_pows/html/cwpows7.html
