Charles Moore Died Dec. 5, 1862

[Henryr10]

Yesterday while photographing Gravestones in Mount Washington, OH for Find A Grave I ran across this Headstone.
Charles Moore BIRTHDATE: 1809 DEATHDATE: 1862

The Stone is heavily weathered but by checking Cemetery Records I found

BIRTHDATE: 05/01/1809 DEATHDATE: 12/05/1862
Civil War Veteran.

I have added him to Find A Grave and would like to add any info I can find to his Biography there.
ANY info /help would be appreciated.

[Richard Lemmers]

According to the National Park Service's Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System there were almost 40 different individuals with the name Charles Moore who served in Ohio volunteer units during the Civil War.  Your individual would have been rather old to be a soldier in 1862, having his 53rd birthday in the year he died.  My guess would be that if he was a soldier it was probably not in a cavalry unit, perhaps not even an infantry one, because of the physical demands.  Obviously this person, if he was a soldier, would not had belonged to any of the the higher numbered infantry units organized after December 1862, which would be those numbered above 127th (127th Ohio, organized in September 1862, was a "Colored" Regiment that got redisignated in the U.S. Colored Troops) and the new organizations for the 18th and 60th Ohio Regiments that formed late in the war.  Of the two Heavy Artillery Regiments, only the First Ohio Heavy Artillery existed before December 1862, so that elimates the first two soldiers on the sustems list because they are the same soldier.

After narrowing down the soldiers listed on the CWSSS you could look up info on those left by checking where they are listed in the official Ohio Roster that can be found in many larger library reference collections in your state.  It would be kind of time consuming.  The list could be further narrowed down by dismissing soldiers whose units had no companies from this man's home county.  The Ohio in the Civil War site provides info on what counties the different companies of each regiment came from.

What clue, other than the date of the man's death, do you have tha he was in the Civil War?  Is there a GAR marker next to his grave? 

[Henryr10]

Thank You for the quick response.
Thanks for the suggestions on his unit.

I need to get up to speed on this as there is another cemetery even closer to us that was one of the first African-American Veterans Cemetery's.
Most graves are Spanish-American and WWI but there are a few Civil War Vet graves also.

I'll get back up to the cemetery next weekend and hopefully be able to pull more data off of the stone.
It's very heavily weathered but I might be able to use a flashlight to get some more detail.
Plus check for the GAR Marker. It did have a Flag from Veterans Day.

Thanks Again,
Ric

[lstevens]

I would do some research at the Hamilton County Library and probably the Cincinnati Historical Center Library.