Charles David "Charley" Blanks was born in Petersburg, Virginia in September 1842. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154717152/charles-david-blanks No official record ties him to the 12th Virginia Infantry, C.S.A., also known as "the Petersburg Regiment." He did not join the regiment while the official records that have survived were being generated. The only information that ties him to the 12th is that Private Blanks and First Lt. Allen Washington Magee laid down their arms at Appomattox with the regiment's Company C, the Petersburg New or B Grays, after returning from furloughs, and that they did not receive paroles. Our source for this information is an undated letter by Magee that is reprinted on pages 322-324 of the Appendix of George S. Bernard's War Talks of Confederate Veterans (Petersburg, Va.: Fenn & Owen, 1892).
Charley was the son of Henry A. Blanks, who died in Petersburg June 10, 1864, of wounds sustained the previous day in the previous day's Battle of Old Men and Young Boys. Charley's mother was Ann Eliza Fisher Banks, 1816-1888. Charley's elder brother was Pvt. Henry A. Blanks, Jr., a carpenter born in 1840 who enlisted in the Petersburg City Guard April 19, 1861, and was killed in action at Malvern Hill July 1, 1862. Charley's first wife was Louisa J. Blanks, born in Nottoway County in 1841 and married in Petersburg December 7, 1865. She died in Petersburg March 29, 1875, after the birth of Charley's son Charles B. Blanks on March 12, 1875, who died in Petersburg June 27, 1875. Henry, Ann, Henry, Jr., Louisa and Charles B. all lie in Petersburg's Blandford Cemetery.
In the following year, Charley married Sarah J. Rowan Blanks, born in Richmond in 1856. By 1912, he lived in Chicago. His wife died in Chicago on June 25 of that year and was buried in Chicago's Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago.
By 1916, Charley was living in Oak Forest, Illinois. He died there June 14, 1916. He lies in Tinley Park, Illinois' Tinley Park Memorial Cemetery.
Charley is special for me because I live in Oak Forest, my law office is in Tinley Park, and I am one of the historians of his regiment.
It's a small world.
Charley was the son of Henry A. Blanks, who died in Petersburg June 10, 1864, of wounds sustained the previous day in the previous day's Battle of Old Men and Young Boys. Charley's mother was Ann Eliza Fisher Banks, 1816-1888. Charley's elder brother was Pvt. Henry A. Blanks, Jr., a carpenter born in 1840 who enlisted in the Petersburg City Guard April 19, 1861, and was killed in action at Malvern Hill July 1, 1862. Charley's first wife was Louisa J. Blanks, born in Nottoway County in 1841 and married in Petersburg December 7, 1865. She died in Petersburg March 29, 1875, after the birth of Charley's son Charles B. Blanks on March 12, 1875, who died in Petersburg June 27, 1875. Henry, Ann, Henry, Jr., Louisa and Charles B. all lie in Petersburg's Blandford Cemetery.
In the following year, Charley married Sarah J. Rowan Blanks, born in Richmond in 1856. By 1912, he lived in Chicago. His wife died in Chicago on June 25 of that year and was buried in Chicago's Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago.
By 1916, Charley was living in Oak Forest, Illinois. He died there June 14, 1916. He lies in Tinley Park, Illinois' Tinley Park Memorial Cemetery.
Charley is special for me because I live in Oak Forest, my law office is in Tinley Park, and I am one of the historians of his regiment.
It's a small world.
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