Charles W. Chaney
Name: Charles W. Chaney
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st MD Cav.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Williamsport, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: n/a
Company: C
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Charles was the son of Lewis Chaney, a lockkeeper on the C&O Canal
Source(s):
United States Census Bureau, “1860 Federal Census of Washington, Co., MD,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com; United States Census Bureau, “1890 Special Schedule – Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc.,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com; L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Volume 1 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899), 713; Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998).
