Biography

"Charles L. Hagar was born on June 29, 1819, in Vermont. He lived in Plattsburgh, New York, with his wife Elizabeth A. Hagar (1820-1888), whom he married on November 20, 1839, in Saratoga, New York.  The couple had four children who survived infancy: Sara Maria (1841-1874), James (1844-1893), Mary Emily “Emma” (1846-?), and Charles W. (1848-1942).  Another daughter, Elizabeth, died at the age of nine months in 1843.

Hagar served as a Methodist minister before enlisting as a chaplain into the United States Army on August 21, 1862, in New York City, and serving in the 118th New York Infantry Regiment, which was commonly referred to as the Adirondack Regiment. Hagar was commissioned as an officer on September 2, 1862, and mustered out on June 13, 1865, in Richmond, Virginia. After the war Charles Hagar returned to New York and died on August 28, 1890, in Essex County, at the age of 71."