My Civil War ancestor is Charles S. Buker. He was born December 28, 1820 in Pittston, Maine. He married Cordelia Blodgett on July 31, 1842. He enlisted in the army on September 20, 1864. He was a private in Company K of the 9th Regiment of the Maine Volunteers and fought at Chaffin’s Farm and Fair Oaks, Virginia.
Charles was discharged on May 18, 1865 due to a disability and returned to his life as a farmer in Maine. He applied for a pension on September 7, 1864. He died on August 5, 1893 of consumption and is buried at the Brown Cemetery in Benton, Maine (….just three miles from where I grew up).
--Marjorie Elliott
Charles was discharged on May 18, 1865 due to a disability and returned to his life as a farmer in Maine. He applied for a pension on September 7, 1864. He died on August 5, 1893 of consumption and is buried at the Brown Cemetery in Benton, Maine (….just three miles from where I grew up).
--Marjorie Elliott