Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich. by Arthur St. Clair A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883 [570-571] CHARLES FLUGAL was born in the city of New York February 9, 1799; when only fourteen years of age, on the 8th of March, 1813, he en- listed as drummer boy in the Thirteenth Regiment United States Infan- try, in the war of 1812; he remained in the service until the close of the war, and was discharged in June, 1815, at Sackett's Harbor, N.Y., and remained there until 1818. He enlisted again December 10, 1818, for five years, in the Second Regiment United States Infantry. After serving his term of enlistment, he enlisted again for five years, and during this term he went up the St. Clair River, on the old steamer Superior, to Fort Howard, on Green Bay, and remained there two years; then returned to Governor's Island, New York, where he received a fur- lough of sixty-one days, and went to Sackett's Harbor and remained there eleven months, when times were so hard that he could not get work, and on the 27th of April, 1829, he again enlisted for five years in his old regiment, the Second United States Infantry; during that time removed to Fort Niagara; and one month later, upon the breaking- out of the Black Hawk war, the troops were ordered West, and his com- mand came to St. Clair. It was during the cholera summer of 1832; they came to St. Clair and remained there several days; the men were dying of cholera; they went to Spring Wells and were there ten days, then went to Niles, Mich.; here the command embarked in a pirogue com- posed of two dug-outs made from two large logs lashed together, and afterward took a schooner and went to Chicago, where they joined GEN. SCOTT'S command; on the 10th of August they started for Galena, via Naperville and Dixon's Ferry; they went to Rock Island, and remained there and at Davenport until September 17, when the treaty with the Indian chief was completed; they then returned to Chicago, and the command was transferred to Fort Dearborn. On the 2d of October he, with ten others, started for Detroit on foot; they were all that were left of the command of eighty-four that started West; they returned to Fort Niagara, and he finished his fourth term of enlistment, and again re-enlisted for three years, and a few months later was ordered to Fort Gratiot, and reached here in 1834, and served out his fifth term of enlistment, and twenty-three years of military service, and was discharged in 1837. He then started a bakery and grocery, and con- tinued in that business, on Military street, corner Water street, until 1854. After selling out, he was clerk in store of SWEETZER & SANBORN, and was also with PETER and JOHN SANBORN. He has been a member of the Masonic order over forty years, and is now Tiler of Pine Grove Lodge and Port Huron Lodge, and also Tiler of the Chapter and Commandery. July 31, 1822, he married Miss EMILY ALLEN. She was born in Jefferson County, N.Y., January 31, 1805; they have two children - MARY, now Mrs. LIVINSTON, living in this county; and SAMUEL; he served four years in the Seventh Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more information about St. Clair County, Michigan by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/mi/stclair/ ===========================================================================