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Capt. Charles A. Sheldon was born in Gaston, Ala., June 11, 1846, and died March 3, 1920, at his home, in Abbeville, Ga. He left the University of Alabama and enlisted among the first volunteers C. S. A. and had the distinction of serving under two of the war's greatest general's, Stonewall Jackson and N. B. Forrest. He was wounded in the battle of Seven Pines. Returning to Alabama in July, 1862, he raised a cavalry company and joined the Western Army under General Forrest, with whom he served for the remainder of the war and surrendered with him on May 14, 1865, as captain of Company D, 8th Alabama Regiment.

In 1869 Captain Sheldon removed to Florida, and in 1870 he married Miss Elizabeth Coffee, daughter of Capt. Hill Bryan Coffee, of the War between the States, and the granddaughter of Gen. John Coffee, of the War of 1812.

Captain Sheldon was an elder in the Presbyterian Church for forty-six years, and his Church duties were his first consideration. He was an ardent Confederate veteran, attending all U. C. V. Reunions, and at his request he was buried in his gray uniform at Brunswick, Ga. The Veterans of Camp Jackson, of which he was a member, served as military escort, and the pallbearers were the officers of his Church. Many floral offerings bore testimony of the esteem in which he was held. The laurel wreath and Confederate flag by the Daughters of the Confederacy remained on his gray casket.

He is survived by his wife, three daughters, and a son, and older son having died some years ago. There are also five grandchildren and one great-grandson.