Devens, Charles

Life Span
to
Full name
Charles Devens
Place of Birth
Charlestown, MA
Burial Place
Boston, MA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Family
Charles Devens, Sr. (father), Mary Lithgow (mother)
Education
Harvard
Occupation
Politician
Attorney or Judge
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Whig
Republican
Government
Fillmore Administration (1850-53)
Hayes Administration (1877-81)
State legislature
State supreme court
Local government
Military
Union Army
Date Event
Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac
- The Army of the Potomac concentrates on Chancellorsville in preparation for an attack on Lee
Union and Confederate armies collide near Chancellorsville in Spotsylvania County, Virginia
"Stonewall" Jackson's flanking movement seizes the initiative in the Battle of Chancellorsville
Lee's Army of Northern Virginia forces back entrenched Union forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville
- The beaten Union Army retreats across the Rappahannock, ending the Battle of Chancellorsville
How to Cite This Page: "Devens, Charles," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/12512.