Charles Kingsbury Jr. was born around 1837 in Massachusetts to Charles and Harriet Kingsbury. His father was a teacher who owned $2,500 of real estate and $3,000 of personal property by 1860. The family eventually moved to Ironton, Ohio, and by 1860, he was working as a clerk.
During the Civil War, he served as an assistant adjutant general on the staffs of General John F. Reynolds and General Philip H. Sheridan. He died of cholera in Maysville, Kentucky, on September 25, 1866.
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Kingsbury, Charles Jr.
1837
1866-09-25
Conflict Side: Union
Role: Soldier
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Gender: Male
Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
(15250) [recipient] ~ Alfred T. A. Torbert to Charles Kingsbury Jr., 5 October 1864
1860 United States Federal Census, available from Ancestry.com; Gallipolis (OH) Journal, 1 November 1866; The Lancaster (PA) Examiner, 10 October 1866; The Evening Post (Cleveland, OH), 4 October 1866