Charles Marshall (3 October 1830-19 April 1902) was a Colonel of the Confederate States Army and an aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War.
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Charles Marshall was born in Warrenton, Virginia in 1830, the son of Alexander J. Marshall, a cousin of George Marshall, and a distant relative of Chief Justice John Marshall. He taught mathematics at Indiana University from 1850 to 1852, and he became a lawyer in Baltimore in 1853. He joined the Confederate States Army at the start of the American Civil War in 1861, and he was appointed to Robert E. Lee's personal staff on 21 March 1862; he rose from the rank of captain to colonel and was present with Lee at all of the Army of Northern Virginia's major battles. He drafted Lee's acceptance of the terms of surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865, and, after the war, he became one of Baltimore's leading attorneys. He died in Baltimore in 1902.