"CHARLES E. McCOY. Was born in Bangor, Me., December 9, 1847; has been a stone-cutter, a farmer, and was for seven years a city policeman in Bangor; his present occupation is lumberman. Enlisted in Company D, 1st Maine Cavalry, January 4, 1864; served as a private, and belonged to Kilpatrick's brigade, afterwards commanded by Gregg, and Charles H. Smith's in Sheridan's cavalry corps. Enlisted at the age of sixteen, was in battle one month afterward and in active service almost continually; took part in Kilpatrick's raid to Richmond, Va., in February, 1S64, in the battles of Winchester, Pleasant Hill, Wyatt Farm, Stony Creek, Dinwiddie Courthouse, Hatcher's Run, Gravelly Creek, Boydton Road, Reams' Station, Five Forks, Farmersville, Sailors' Creek, Weldon Railroad, and Appomattox Courthouse, besides numerous skirmishes; was captured in June, 1864, while on a raiding party in King and Queen County, Va.; by a portion of Colonel Mosby's Confederate command, and paroled on the field; parole rejected by War Department, and he was sent for a time to dismounted cavalry camp Stoneman, near Washington city; ordered from thence with the other dismounted men to Shenandoah Valley for service in General Sheridan's campaign; rejoined his regiment before Petersburg in the fall, and was with it in all subsequent engagements. Mustered out August 1, 1865. After the war served six years in the Maine Volunteer Militia, in which he was a sergeant; was a member of B. H. Beale Post, G. A. R., of Bangor, Me., and officer of the guard; is now on transfer card, a member of Phil Sheridan Post, G. A. R., at San Jose, Cal., his place of residence, and where he is employed in the Union Mill and Lumber Company."
"Records of Members of the Grand Army of the Republic" (San Francisco: H.S. Crocker & Co., 1887, pp.238-239.)