Charles Cornish is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Charles Cornish
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4100838
Unit:
Merchant Ship Chesapeake
Date of Death:
1814-01-10
State:
Maryland
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Charles Cornish was a 41-year-old seaman from Baltimore who served aboard the merchant ship Chesapeake. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Cornish died on January 10, 1814, with pneumonia recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.