Charles Grignon

Charles Grignon   Native American

Enlisted as Pvt. 17 Wis. Inf. Co K on 8 Mar 1862

Died on May 25 1864 at New Albany, Indiana of Disease

Time served 2y 2m 23d

Born 1842

Died 25 May 1864

Buried New Albany National Cemetery, IN

GRIGNON, CHARLES   PVT. US ARMY CIVIL WAR  

DATE OF DEATH: 05/25/1864

BURIED AT: SECTION B  SITE 1508

NEW ALBANY NATIONAL CEMETERY 1943 EKIN AVENUE NEW ALBANY, IN 47150

Parents Augustine and Mathilda (Mah-wah-say) Grignon

Wife Mary Ann Kittson (Dau of John and Margaret Kittson)

Pension

Service Record - Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30, 1862. Duty at Corinth till November. Near Ramer's Crossing, Mobile & Ohio Railroad, October 2 (Co. "A"). Battle of Corinth October 3-4. Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12. Moved to Grand Junction November 2. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign, operations on the Mississippi Central Railroad November 2, 1862, to January 8, 1863. Moved to Moscow, Tenn., January 3, thence to Memphis January 10, and to Young's Point, La., January 18. Moved to Lake Providence, La., February 8 and duty there till April 20. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 20-30. Battle of Port Gibson , Miss., May 1 (Reserve). Battle of Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg , Miss., May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26-June 4. Moved to Natchez, Miss., July 12-13 and duty there till October 9. Expedition to Harrisonburg September 1-8. Trinity September 2. Near Harrisonburg and capture of Fort Beauregard September 4. Cross Bayou September 10. Moved to Vicksburg October 9 and duty there till March, 1864. Veterans on furlough March 8-April 21. Moved to Cairo, Ill., April 21-22, thence moved to Clifton, Tenn., May 4, and march to Ackworth, Ga., via Huntsville and Decatur, Ala., and Rome, Ga., May 5-June 8.

One of the first six Menominee's to serve in the Civil War fighting in the battle at Corinth and at Vicksburg, along with Jackson Corn, Joseph Antoine, Alex and John Kitson and John Law. One of the two who died of disease of those first enlisted.