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Today’s Star Spangled Salute honors Civil War Union soldier Charles Sigmund. Charles was a Veteran of the civil war — who’d ridden a cavalry horse into artillery fire at New Market, Va., in 1864, and had witnessed Gen. Robert E. Lee surrender at Appomattox Court House, also in Virginia, in 1865. After the war he was a piano tuner from South Philly. In 1928 he died at the age of 80, and from that day until this past weekend, he never had a headstone to mark his grave. After an extensive search by anscestors, with the help of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Sons of Union Veterans, and a nonprofit overseeing the cemetery, they held a ceremony in the late morning on Saturday to unveil a sculpted slab of light-gray granite that bore Sigmund’s name, and proclaimed his service in the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Rest easy with closure Charles and THANK YOU for your service.
