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CHARLES A. HENDERSON was born in in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, February 22d, 1848, and was the seventh son of James and Sarah McAfee Henderson, the former a native of Westmoreland County, Penn., and the latter a daughter of Jas. McAfee. Charles A. was reared on a farm and received such education as was to be obtained in the public schools. In June, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry, although but fourteen years old. Owing to his extreme youth, the colonel of the regiment made him the orderly, and afterward he was made picket messenger for Gen. Wood, who commanded the division to which the Twenty-sixth was attached. He was sent home to Ohio as a recruiting officer, and for two months performed that duty faithfully; during the draft, he was appointed postmaster of Camp Morton, Ind., a position he held for seven months. After serving one or two years, he veteranized and continued in the service until the close of the war, participating in a number of severe battles, among which were Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and the fighting around Atlanta. After the close of the war he returned home and resumed the duties of life. He was married July 26, 1874, to Miss Rebecca McCoy, a daughter of Joseph McCoy, a native of Kentucky. Two children were born to this marriage, viz.: William H., born July 4, 1875, and Harold C., born December 25, 1877. This year (1877), he moved to Kentucky and settled at Bardstown Junction, where he now lives.