Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Charles Gustavus DAHLGREN
Dahlgren, Charles Gustavus, planter, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1808; son of Bernard Ulric and Martha Rowan (McConnell) Dahlgren, and brother of Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgren. He was cashier of the Natchez, Miss., branch of the United States bank, 1830-48, and removed to Mississippi in 1848, acquiring a fortune as a cotton planter. At the beginning of the civil war he raised and equipped the 3d Mississippi regiment and was commissioned brigadier-general in the Confederate army. He participated in the defence of Vicksburg, the battles of Corinth, Iuka, Chickamauga, Atlanta, and the final operations of General Hood's army, rising to the rank of major-general. After the war he lived in New Orleans, La., removing to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1870, where he died Dec. 18, 1888.
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