3rd NY Dept Commander, GAR

Fort Hill Cemetery

Auburn, NY

Photo by Jerome Orton

GAR NY Dept Commander 1910-1911

Utica, NY

Photo by Jerome Orton

CHARLES ALVIN ORR

 MILITARY

 He enlisted on September 29, 1864 at Benton, NY as a Private.

On October 13, 1864 he mustered into Company "G", 187th New York Volunteers.  

He was Mustered Out on July 1, 1865 at Arlington Heights, Virginia.

 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC

New York Department Commander, 1901 (elected)

 MEDAL OF HONOR

 At Hatchers Run, VA - October 27, 1864.
Date of Issue: April 1, 1898.
Citation: This soldier and two others, voluntarily and under fire, rescued several wounded and helpless soldiers.  Charles A. Orr, another widely known and highly esteemed comrade has answered the last roll call.

 BACKGROUND

 He was born in 1848.  He was sixteen years of age when he enlisted in the 187th New York
Volunteers.  After the Civil War he became the pension agent for the Government in Buffalo for fourteen years, retiring in 1913 when the branch offices were abolished and a central bureau was established in Washington D.C.

Comrade Orr was Commander of Chapin Post No. 2 of Buffalo for twenty-one years.  He is interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie County, New York.