Gallery: Actions in the fall of 1861 and early 1862
Charles Frazer
Charles W. Frazer was born on July 21, 1834, in Fayette County, Tennessee; he attended the University of Mississippi and was admitted to the bar in Memphis at nineteen. With the start of the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate army on June 14, 1861, and was commissioned captain of Company I, 21st Tennessee Infantry.
Frazer fought in the Battle of Belmont in Mississippi County, Missouri on November 7, 1861, the first combat for Union General Ulysses S. Grant. The Confederates claimed victory, as the Federals were forced to withdraw, but the outcome was inconclusive. Frazer also fought at Perryville, Kentucky on October 8, 1862, the largest battle fought in Kentucky during the war.
Captured in September 1863, Frazer was sent to Johnson’s Island, Ohio, a Union prison for Confederate officers on Lake Erie. Frazer remained at Johnson’s Island until his release on June 11, 1865.
Frazer died on July 11, 1897.
Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31600
