Trowbridge, Charles E.:

Pvt. 2nd WI, Co. "H";

appears on marker as "Charles E. Throwbridge";

captured at First Manassas 21 JUL 1861;

buried 9 OCT 1861

His remains were first buried just outside of Richmond's Shockoe Hill Cemetery, along with more than 500 other POWs and at least a dozen Unionist civilians. The remains were disinterred and moved to Richmond National Cemetery in 1866, where they rest today under "Unknown" markers.

A commemorative monument (shown here) honoring the POWs was placed at Shockoe Hill Cemetery in 2002 by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion (MOLLUS). His name appears as "Charles E Throwbridge", as it mistakenly was recorded at the time of first burial. For more on the POWs and the marker, see https://soldiersofshockoehill.com.

"JULY 30 [1861]: Today I formed the acquaintance of a young man named Trowbridge...and find that he is a cousin of a school-mate of mine....He is sick today, and I am taking care of him...

SEPTEMBER 11th: Soon after I left the prison, and came to the hospital, Charley, with a number of others, was moved to another building....Here they suffered still more for the want of rations...he sometimes sent his haversack [asking for food to be sent back]....We loved each other like brothers, and of course I never let his haversack go back empty."

"SEPTEMBER 21st: Orders were, to be ready to start [for New

Orleans] at 3 o'clock this morning....My friend Trowbridge was not to go. I tried to persuade him that we should not be parted, but he felt too weak to undertake the journey. He though that he would soon go home....And so we parted....In two weeks after I left him, he starved to death."

C.B. Fairchild, "History of the Twenty-Seventh Regiment

of New York Volunteers" (1888), pp. 189-212.

Source: http://soldiersofshockoehill.com