Charles P. Graham

In December 8, 1871, Graham joined the Middletown company, H, of the Second Regiment, as a private. A month later he was first sergeant. Graham was elected first lieutenant and eight months later on April 21, 1873, became captain. On September 3, 1875, he was appointed to second regiment and then on July 5, 1878, succeeded Stephen R. Smith a colonel. On January 28, 1885, he became brigadier-general. In 1895 Charles P. Graham became Connecticut Adjutant General until 1896.^[1]

Charles P. Graham was the son of George W. Graham. He moved to Middletown, Connecticut, in 1857. Graham got married and a daughter who was killed in the Park Central disaster in Hartford. On November 1, 1904, General Charles P. Graham killed himself.^[2][3] He was survived by his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Eugene P. Pelton of Essex. He had a brother, George T. Graham of Hartford, and three sisters, Mrs. Edwin A. Sawyer of Hartford, Mrs. A.O. Carter of Niantic and Mrs. Charles Barlett of New Haven.^[4]