Folsom, C. W. (Charles William), 1826-1904
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Folsom, C. W. (Charles William), 1826-1904
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Folsom, Charles W., 1826-1904
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Folsom, Charles William, 1826-1904
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Civil engineer and landscape gardener of Cambridge.
A trained civil engineer born to Harvard's librarian in 1826, upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Charles W. Folsom, Jr. entered the military. He was mustered in July 1, 1861 as a 1st Lieutenant in Company S of the Massachusetts 20th Infantry Regiment of Volunteers. He was eventually promoted to full Captain an March 13, 1865. He was commissioned an officer in the U.S. Volunteers Quartermaster's Department Infantry Regiment where he became Chief Quartermaster of the Nottoway District, Petersburg, Virginia, at the end of the War. He mustered out of the military on August 31, 1868.
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