Here is a group to Charles Wesley Eckman. He was born at Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, on June 27, 1837. He grew up in Danville, Pennsylvania, and worked as a boatman on the Pennsylvania Canal. Eckman enlisted at Danville as a private in Company H, 93rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment on September 15, 1861. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on September 25, 1861. Eckman served at the Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, Chantilly, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Marye's Heights, Salem Heights, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run, The Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Charlestown, Bunker Hill, Opequan, Flint Hill, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, Fort Fisher, Winchester, Petersburg, Sailor's Creek and Appomattox Court House. He was wounded three times in the battle of the Wilderness. At the battle of Cedar Creek “he had two horses shot under him in less than twenty minutes and was wounded in the side by a bombshell that tore the head off his horse and the pommel off his saddle.” Eckman mustered out as Colonel of the 93rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Washington D.C. on June 27, 1865. After the war he returned to Danville, Pennsylvania, where he became a manager of the Danville Bessemer Steel Company. Charles Wesley Eckman died at Danville, Pennsylvania on May 3, 1906. He is buried at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Danville. These items that belonged to Colonel Eckman include his presentation sword and sash and his presentation traveling desk. The sword was presented to him by “Company H, 93rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers,” when he was promoted to Captain on October 21, 1862. The traveling desk was “Presented to Colonel Charles W. Eckman by the Staff Officers of the 93rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, as a token of their esteem, Washington, D.C., June 27, 1865.”
