FIELD, Charles W., a Doorkeeper from Georgia; born in Woodford County, Ky., April 6, 1828; attended private schools; attended the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.; graduated from United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., 1849; United States Army, 1849–1861; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, 1861–1865; elected Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives for the Forty-fifth and for the succeeding Congress (April 8, 1878–December 5, 1881); civil engineer, 1881–1888; superintendent, Hot Springs National Park, Ark.; staff, Department of War Records Office, 1891–1892; died on April 9, 1892, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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