Charles H. Chope

A Native of Wayne County, Michigan, Charles H. Chope was born sometime around 1844. In the summer of 1862, Charles was working in Detroit as a carpenter. Charles H. Chope enlisted in Company G as 5th Sergeant on July 24, 1862. He was mustered into service on August 13, 1862. He was only 18.

He was promoted to First Sergeant on October 1, 1864..

The battle of North Anna was very inauspicious for the remaining fragments of the proud Twenty-fourth. After being struck in the flank by a confederate counter attack, the once mighty Iron Brigade fled. Captain Dodsley along with Lieutenants E. B. Welton and George A. Ross, Sergeants C. H. Chope and Robert E. Bolger, and Captain Wood, the A. A. G. of the Iron Brigade, rallied some 50 men around a battery of artillery and helped stop the on-rushing confederates. (Curtis p. 251).

Sergeant Chope was wounded in neck while manning the rifle pits before Petersburg on June 21, 1864.

He was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company B on March 21, 1865. He was mustered at that rank on April 19, 1865.

During his military service, Charles H. Chope was in the battles of Fredericksburg, Fitzhugh Crossing, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Locust Grove, Wilderness, Laurel Hill, the Salient at Spottsylvania, Jericho Ford, North Anna, Tolopotomy, Bethesda Church (Cold Harbor), the Assault on Petersburg, the Siege of Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Hatcher's Run and Dabney's Mill.

He was on the Mud March, the Port Royal and Westmoreland Expeditions, the Campaign of Maneuvers, Mine Run, the Reconnaissances to Raccoon Ford, Yellow Tavern, and Vaughn Road and the Raid to the Meherrin River.

He mustered out with the regiment on June 30, 1865 at Detroit.

Charles Chope attended the dedication of the 24th's monument during Michigan Day at Gettysburg in 1889. The Photograph above was taken circa 1890, when Charles would have been 46.

Charles H. Chope died on October 14, 1908.

The photograph is O. B. Curtis