He is on the Union Rolls as Charles Lombardy, but also as Louis Favre. According to American Civil War Soldiers database at Ancestry.com, Louis Favre enlisted on October 26, 1864 in New Jersey and was mustered out as a Full Corporal on July 13, 1865 in Hall's Hill, VA. His wife, Rosa, was able to get a widow's Civil War Pension based on both names.
By the 1880 census, Charles is married to Rosa and working as a policeman in Washington, DC. An announcement in the Daily Critic, May 31, 1878, has him being appointed to the regular force. He was promoted to Acting Sergeant in May 1883. Charles was granted a pension in October 12, 1905 due to medical trouble.
Charles and Rosa had 9 children. Victoria, Ida, Charles, Francis, Augustus, Camillo, Alma, Margaret and Helen.
Obituary:
Charles Lombardy Funeral Tomorrow
Former Sergeant of Police to be Buried at 9 A.M. in Congressional Cemetery
The friends of Charles Lombardy, veteran of the civil war and member of the Washington police force for twenty-one years, will be held from the home, 529 Eleventh street southeast, tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. The interment will be in Congressional Cemetery.
Sergeant Lombardy was born in Turin, Italy, and came to the United States as a young man. He was naturalized in St. Louis in 1862. When the civil was broke out he was living in New Jersey and enlisted in the Fortieth Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, which was a portion of the first brigade of the Sixth Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac.
His regiment saw service at Hatchers Run, Fort Stedman, Petersburg, Sailers Creek, Farmville, Appomattox, and a number of minor engagements. At the close of the war he was given an honorable discharge, and shortly afterward enlisted in the United States marine corps, where he served three enlistments. At the end of his service he was acting sergeant major of his battalion.
In 1879 he became a member of the Washington police force, and remained a member for twenty-one years, fifteen of which he was a sergeant fo police. When he was retired from the police force, he was made government interpreter for police court.
He is survived by his widow, Rose Lombardy and six children.
The Washington Times, Tuesday, April 29, 1913
He is on the Union Rolls as Charles Lombardy, but also as Louis Favre. According to American Civil War Soldiers database at Ancestry.com, Louis Favre enlisted on October 26, 1864 in New Jersey and was mustered out as a Full Corporal on July 13, 1865 in Hall's Hill, VA. His wife, Rosa, was able to get a widow's Civil War Pension based on both names.
By the 1880 census, Charles is married to Rosa and working as a policeman in Washington, DC. An announcement in the Daily Critic, May 31, 1878, has him being appointed to the regular force. He was promoted to Acting Sergeant in May 1883. Charles was granted a pension in October 12, 1905 due to medical trouble.
Charles and Rosa had 9 children. Victoria, Ida, Charles, Francis, Augustus, Camillo, Alma, Margaret and Helen.
Obituary:
Charles Lombardy Funeral Tomorrow
Former Sergeant of Police to be Buried at 9 A.M. in Congressional Cemetery
The friends of Charles Lombardy, veteran of the civil war and member of the Washington police force for twenty-one years, will be held from the home, 529 Eleventh street southeast, tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. The interment will be in Congressional Cemetery.
Sergeant Lombardy was born in Turin, Italy, and came to the United States as a young man. He was naturalized in St. Louis in 1862. When the civil was broke out he was living in New Jersey and enlisted in the Fortieth Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, which was a portion of the first brigade of the Sixth Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac.
His regiment saw service at Hatchers Run, Fort Stedman, Petersburg, Sailers Creek, Farmville, Appomattox, and a number of minor engagements. At the close of the war he was given an honorable discharge, and shortly afterward enlisted in the United States marine corps, where he served three enlistments. At the end of his service he was acting sergeant major of his battalion.
In 1879 he became a member of the Washington police force, and remained a member for twenty-one years, fifteen of which he was a sergeant fo police. When he was retired from the police force, he was made government interpreter for police court.
He is survived by his widow, Rose Lombardy and six children.
The Washington Times, Tuesday, April 29, 1913
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