CHARLES and WILLIAM INGRAHAM -- 142ndINFANTRYBOTH GOT SICK IN NORTH CAROLINA - The 142nd Infantry had two Inghrammen from Warren County enlisted in the regiment. Charles, age 24, andWilliam, age 42, were mustered into Company H on September 1, 1864. Theywere needed because, between May and July 1864, the regiment had hadover 200 casualties before Petersburg.Both men participated in the last battle of the year in Virginia atDarbytown Road where they had an additional 103 casualties. In Decemberthey were sent to Fort Fisher on the coast of North Carolina.During the two assaults on the fort, the 142nd had 20 casualties onDecember 25, 1864, and another 79 on January 15, 1865, when the fort wasfinally taken. Two more battles followed for the brothers before theymoved on to Wilmington and then their health failed them.Charles went into hospital in Wilmington in March and William enteredthe same hospital, where he died of intermittent fever (probablymalaria) on May 8, 1865. He was buried in the local cemetery whichbecame Wilmington National Cemetery. Charles was transferred to ahospital in Smithville, NC, on the coast, about 35 miles south ofWilmington.Charles returned home. In 1890 he and his wife, Lucy, were living inChestertown, and the record shows the was suffering from rheumatismwhich he claimed was due to exposure while in the military. Lucy startedreceiving her Widows Pension in 1916.
