General Charles D.
Jameson CDV Standing
view in uniform with rank of brigadier general. As colonel of the 2nd Maine
Infantry he led his regiment at First Bull Run and was commissioned brigadier
general to rank September 1861. During the Peninsular campaign he
commanded a brigade in the 3rd Corps. As "General of the
Trenches" on May 4, 1862, he was the first to discover the Confederate
evacuation of Yorktown, Va. During the Battle of Seven Pines, Jameson's command
got closer to Richmond than any portion of McClellan's army, and he was praised
for bravery by his corps commander General Samuel P. Heintzelman. Soon after he
contracted "camp fever" which forced him to take a leave of absence
and return to Maine. He died on a steamboat between Boston and Bangor, Maine.
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