Children: Ada K. Galloway 1869-14 Aug 1915 Carrie E. Galloway 1871 Lillian Galloway Emmy Galloway 1874 Bertie Galloway 1877 Hattie Galloway 1879 Elizabeth A. Galloway abt. 1881
Charles Sands Galloway, Private Company D, 8th Maine Infantry Regiment
Of the 20 known Union Civil War Veterans that are descendants of the John Galloway (1700) family, the military service of Charles Sands Galloway has been one of the most complicated to document.
On March 3, 1863 the Enrollment Act was passed, this was the first effective draft by the federal government. The Enrollment Act called for men ages eighteen to forty-five to register with their local militia units and be available for national service.
Each state was responsible for the draft and usually relied on lottery systems. To meet the demand for troops, each state had to fill a quota based on its population. The number of volunteers from a state would be subtracted from its quota, and the difference would be made by conscription. If a draftee volunteered, he was eligible to collect a bounty of $100 from the federal government plus additional bounties from the state and local communities. These bounties or enlistment rewards could exceed $500, well above the average yearly wage in those days.
A draftee could also gain an exemption by paying $300 or by hiring a substitute.
After participating in the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in July of 1863 the 8th Maine Infantry Regiment, organized September 7, 1861, was in need of replacements. The state of Maine to meet the demand for troop replacements had to draft men into the army.
On October 8, 1863 Maine resident, Wallace Lee, aged 37, was drafted as a private into Company D, 8th Maine Infantry Regiment as one of the troop replacements. After again reaching regimental strength the 8th Maine Infantry would participate in dozens of major battles over the next two years. Many of these battles would become almost as famous as the one it participated in at Gettysburg, for instance the Battle of Cold Harbor and Petersburg, Virginia. Their last battle being fought on April 9, 1865, the very day that General Lee surrenders to General Grant at Appomattox, Virginia.
Of the 1636 men that served with the 8th Maine Infantry Regiment from the time it was organized on September 7, 1861 until its muster date on January 18, 1866 there were 381 men of 8th Maine that made the supreme sacrifice.
On December 11, 1866, nearly a year after the surviving men of the 8th Maine Infantry Regiment are mustered out, Charles Sands Galloway is married to Emma J. Romer. Charles and Emma Galloway would become parents of seven children, all girls.
Charles Sands Galloway was born September 16, 1830 and would pass away in New York State on April 16, 1883. Charles would leave a wife with seven small children, oldest being only about 14 and the youngest about 2 years old.
In June of 1886 the widow of Charles Sands Galloway living in New York State, Emma J. Galloway, would start receiving a Widows Pension for the service of Charles Sands Galloway, alias Wallace Lee.
It would appear that Wallace Lee hired Charles Sands Galloway to serve as his substitute in Company D, 8th Maine Infantry Regiment from October 8, 1863 until he mustered out on January 18, 1866.
Of the 20 Galloway cousins that were all Union Civil War Veterans, Charles Sands Galloway appears to have been the only one to serve as a substitute for some else. Also he was probably the only one to serve in a Maine Regiment. The other 19 Galloway men served in regiments from Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin.