Charles Henry Tucker "Tucky" Collis (4 February 1838-11 May 1902) was an Irish-American brevet major-general in the Union Army who commanded the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.
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Charles Henry Tucker Collis was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1838, and he immigrated to the United States in 1853. Collis practiced law in Pennsylvania before enlisting in the 18th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment at the start of the American Civil War, receiving a captain's commission in August 1861, and raising a company of European immigrant zouaves. After distinguishing himself in the Valley Campaign of 1862, Collins was promoted to colonel on 1 September 1862 and recruited the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment for the Union Army. Collis commnaded the regiment at the Battle of Fredericksburg and was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville, contracting typhoid fever soon after. He recovered by August 1863 and went on to become a brigadier-general of volunteers, fighting at the Siege of Petersburg. He was breveted a major-general before mustering out at the end of the war. Collin returned to practicing law, becoming an assistant city solicitor in Philadelphia and dying in Bryn Mawr in 1902.