Baskerville, Charles, 1821-1890

Charles Baskerville was a Confederate officer from Mississippi during the Civil War. Born in Virginia in 1821, Baskerville moved to Mississippi in the 1850s. He was a successful businessman in Columbus on the eve of the Civil War, and when hostilities broke out in 1861, he helped raise a cavalry battalion in Mississippi, variously known as the Second Battalion, the Fourth Battalion, and the Pope Walker Battalion. He served as an officer of the battalion, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Baskerville led cavalry troops through many engagements in the Mississippi and Tennessee area.

He survived the war and returned to Mississippi, passing away on June 23, 1890. He was married twice, first to Margaret Haynes Freear, who died in 1853. He then married Jane Coleman. Baskerville had at least five children. He is buried in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi.

(1850 U.S. Census for Regiment 98, Mecklenburg, Virginia; 1860 U.S. Census for Columbus, Mississippi; Historical Data Systems, cop., U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles 1861-1865; FindaGrave; Dunbar Rowland, The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, 1908, 799-801)

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