Historic Civil War Officer's Desk and personal effects from Major Charles A. Appel 9th US Cavalry!
Rare Civil War Officers Walnut Lap desk, with personal effects from a Major Charles A. Appel. He was in every skirmish and battle in which his regiment was engaged up to the time of his capture, having had five horses shot from under him. In October, 1865, he went to Washington, D. C., and has resided there
Major Appel was captured at the Battle of Solemen Grove NC in 1865, and sent to Libby Prison, while a prisoner carved a "Chain and Caged Ball" or "Nested Sphere", these carvings were a symbol of a trapped soul in a cage of love.
The desk also held Major Appel's Civil War Wallet with a CDV of a young Lady named Kate Girard, who is not the Wife of Major Appel! The desk also has a small group of Post War tax paper's and Letters, some addressed to Mary Appel. A leather covered book from the William Penn Charter School, and a leather note pad from his bank in Washington DC. ( 1890's)
| Charles A. Appel |
Major |
October 3, 1861 |
3 |
Promoted from Captain, Company F, August 23, 1863; captured at Solemn Grove, N. C., March 10, 1865; discharged by Special Order, May 25, 1865 |
9th Cavalry /92d Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
Long list of Battle's / Service
Lebanon, Ky., May 4-5, 1862 (3rd Battalion).
Spring Creek May 14 (3rd Battalion).
Tompkinsville June 6 (3rd Battalion).
Operations against Morgan July 4-28.
Tompkinsville July 9 (3rd Battalion).
Glasgow July 10.
Paris July 19.
Regiment assembled at Lebanon, Ky., August. Crab Orchard, Ky., August 22.
Frankfort September 2.
Near Perryville October 6-7.
Doctor's Fork October 7.
Perryville October 8.
Carter's Raid from Winchester, Ky., to East Tennessee and Southwest Kentucky December 20, 1862, to January 5, 1863.
Passage of Moccasin Gap December 29.
Watauga Bridge, Carter's Station and Union December 30.
Carter's Depot December 31.
Watauga River January 1, 1863. Jonesville, Va., January 2.
Union January 15.
Reconnoissance from Franklin February 21.
Thompson's Station, Spring Hill, March 4-5 (Detachment).
Expedition from Franklin to Columbia March 8-12.
Thompson's Station March 9. Rutherford Creek March 10-11.
Spring Hill March 19.
Near Thompson's Station March 23.
Little Harpeth River March 25.
Near Franklin March 31.
Davis Mills April 5 (Detachment).
Thompson's Station May 2.
Franklin June 4-5.
Triune June 9 and 11.
Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7.
Eaglesville and Rover June 23.
Middleton June 24.
Guy's Gap and Fosterville June 27.
Capture of Shelbyville June 27.
Bethpage Bridge, Elk River, July 2.
Expedition to Huntsville July 13-22.
Jonesboro July 12.
Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Rawlingsville September 5. Stevenson, Ala., September 7.
Reconnoissance from Alpine, Ga., toward Rome September 10-11.
Alpine September 12. Dirt Town, Lafayette Road, September 12.
Chattooga River September 12.
Reconnoissance from Lee and Gordon's Mills toward Lafayette and skirmish September 13. Battle of Chickamauga, Ga., September 19-20.
Buck Town Tavern, near New Market, October 12.
Sparta November 24-26 and December 9.
On road to Coosaville, Cumberland Mountain, December 9.
Operations about Dandridge and Mossy Creek December 24-28.
Dandridge, Tenn., December 24.
Talbot Station December 28.
Mossy Creek, Talbot Station, December 29.
Bend of Chucky Road, near Dandridge, January 16, 1864.
Operations about Dandridge January 16-17.
Dandridge January 17.
Fair Garden January 27.
McNutt's Bridge January 27.
Veterans on furlough April-May.
Operations against Morgan May 31-June 20.
Defence of Frankfort June 10.
Duty in District of Kentucky till September.
Lawrenceburg September 6.
Readyville, Tenn., September 6.
Woodbury September 10.
Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3.
Camp Creek September 30.
Sweetwater and Noyes Creek, near Powder Springs, October 1-3.
Lafayette, Ga., October 12.
March to the sea November 15-December 10.
Lovejoy Station November 16. East Macon November 20.
Gordon November 21.
Clinton November 21-23.
Griswoldsville November 22.
Sylvan Grove November 27.
Waynesboro November 27-28.
Near Louisville November 29.
Millen or Shady Grove November 30.
Waynesboro December 4.
Briar Creek December 7.
Siege of Savannah December 10-21.
Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.
Johnson's Station February 10-11.
Phillips Cross Roads March 4.
Rockingham March 7.
Averysboro, N. C., March 16.
Bentonville March 19-21.
Morrisville and occupation of Raleigh April 13.
Bennett's House April 26.
Surrender of Johnston and his army.
Duty at Lexington, N. C., till July.
Mustered out July 18, 1865.
Losses
Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 66 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 155 Enlisted men by disease. Total 229. |
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