Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: John Zahn    
                Born: ca 1774              in Philadelphia, PA  1,2
              Census: 1840, 1850           in Augusta Co, VA  
          Occupation:                      farmer  2
            Military:                      Pvt, McDowell's Flying Camp, Virginia Militia, War of 1812  
              Father:
              Mother:
                Wife: Mary Magdaline Strock     
         Census name: Magdaline 
                Born: 1777                 in York Co, PA  1 (see note 1)
              Census: 1840, 1850           in Augusta Co, VA  
              Father:
              Mother:
           M Child 1: Charles Wesley Zahn 1     
       Also known as: C. W. Zahn 3,4
                Born: Nov- 9-1811          in Augusta Co, VA  1,5,6
                Died: Apr-  -1882          in Doddridge Co, WV  3,4
              Buried: unknown               
      Cause of death:                      diabetes  3
              Census: 1870, 1880           in Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV  
              Census: 1860                 in Doddridge Co, (W)VA  
          Occupation: 1880                 farmer  7
          Occupation: 1870                 school teacher  8
          Occupation: 1860                 physician  5
            Military: Sep-24-1861 - Nov-16-1864 Pvt, Co M, 6th W.Va. Inf, Civil War  6 (see note 2)
                Wife: Lydia Hoover  b. ca 1811  
         Census name: Lyddy 
             Married: May-20-1836          in Frederick Co, MD  9

Sources:
(1) One World Tree (www.ancestry.com) 
(2) 1850 Census. 
(3) Doddridge County Death Records, West Union, WV, DR p. 37 : www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=5045979&Type=Death. 
(4) West Virginia Deaths Index, 1853-1973 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(5) 1860 Census, Doddridge County, (W)VA. 
(6) Civil War Service Records, . 
(7) 1880 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Southwest District). 
(8) 1870 Census, Doddridge County, WV (South West Twp). 
(9) Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Age 68 in 1850 Census would put birth in about 1782.
Note (2) Charles W. Zahn joined for duty in West Union on Sep 24 1861 for a term of
three years.  He mustered in as a Private in Co M, 6th W.Va. Inf, on March 16
1861 in West Union.  He was present for every muster roll.  He was scheduled to
muster out at Grafton on Dec 1 1864, rank Private, but the company muster-out
roll stated that he was "sick in U.S. Genl Hospital at Cumberland, Md.  Not
mustered out."  Following Charles W. Zahn's discharge, his unit, Co M of the 6th
W.Va. Inf, was transferred to Co L, 6th W.Va. Inf, per Special Order No. 72,
dated Dec 26 1864.

The 6th infantry was organized by authority of the War Department and was
mustered into the U. S. service from August to December 1861 for the purpose of
guarding the Baltimore & Ohio railroad in the state.  During the years 1862 the
companies were moved about from place to place as their services were needed. 
...  The non-veterans were mustered out at the expiration of the original term
of enlistment and the veterans and recruits were retained in service until June
10, 1865, when they were mustered out by order of the war department.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 2, p. 301.
Historical Data Systems, comp. U.S., American Civil War Regiments, 1861-1866
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.

His military discharge, which includes an annotation that a $100 bounty was
paid in full, reads as follows:
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
     KNOW YE, That Charles W. Zahn, a Private of Captain John Carroll's
Company M, Sixth Regiment of West Virginia Infantry Volunteers, who was enrolled
on the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and Sixty-one,
to serve three years or during the war, is hereby DISCHARGED from the service of
the United States this Sixteenth day of November 1864 at Wheeling, West Va., by
reason of Expiration of Term of service.  (No objection to his being re-enlisted
is known to exist.)
     Said Charles W. Zahn was born in Augusta County in the State of
Virginia, is Forty-three years of age, Five feet Eleven inches high, Dark
complexion, Blue eyes, Light hair, and by occupation when enrolled, a Physician.
     Given at Wheeling, W.Va., this Fifth day of December 1864.
(Signed) (name illegible), 1st Lieut, 4th U.S. Infty, M and L Officer
(Signed)  James Washburn, Col., 116th Ohio Vol. Infy, (illegible)
Comd

Despite Charles W. Zahn's occupation as physician in the 1860 Census and at
the time of his enlistment, the 26 pages of military records on file for him at
the U.S. National Archives refer to him only by the rank of Private and give no
indication that his military duties may have been of a medical nature.







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