CHARLES W. TUPPER -- 23rd INDEPENDENT BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY and 8th ARTILLERYBECAME ILL WITHIN THREE MONTHS - In August and September 1864,thirty-four men from the Plattsburgh area enlisted in the 23rdIndependent Battery of the Light Artillery in Plattsburgh. The regimentorganized in Albany in 1861 and was recruited in the Counties ofNiagara, Clinton, Essex and Warren. They went directly to North Carolinaand stayed there for the rest of the war. By 1864, the regiment was withthe Sub-District of the Defenses of New Bern and were in need ofreplacement troops.Charles W. Tupper, who was a farmer born in Hague in Warren County,enlist in Plattsburgh in September of 1864, to serve for three years.The small group of men joined one of their detachments while they wereat Washington, NC, overlooking the Pamlico River about 40 miles north ofNew Bern.After about two months in North Carolina, Charles became ill and wassent the Foster General Hospital in New Bern which he entered onNovember 23rd. While there, he was transferred administratively to the8th Artillery. He subsequently was moved to a hospital at City Point,VA, just outside Petersburg on the James River and died there on April18, 1865.In the last year of the Civil War, Union troops, artillery and allmanner of supplies were amassed at City Point in preparation forGrant\'s final assaults to capture Petersburg and Richmond. From June1864 until April 1865, the Union advanced and the Confederate\'s defensetactics resulted in many wounded and dead who were transported to CityPoint and other regional hospitals. Seven hospitals in City Pointadministered most of the care for the injured and mortally wounded.Casualties were originally interred in burial grounds near thehospitals, and later they were reinterred at City Point NationalCemetery. Charles is buried in Section F, Site 738 of the cemetery.
