Posted By:MICHAEL HIGGINS
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Subject:Re: Charles or Carl Rostosky Mt Vernon NY
Post Date:June 04, 2009 at 22:47:47
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Hope this id the right man

The Civil War pension index shows a Charles Rostosky received an invalid's pension pension August 12,1890 for his service in Company "M" 1st New York Engineers.
His wife Elizabetg received a widows pension December 10,1892.
Invalid pension application # 865522, & Certificate # 614281

Widows pension application # 566091 and certificate # 480557

They can be ordered thru the National Aechives and other services also.

http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/other/1stEng/1stEngMain.htm
1st Engineer Regiment - Civil War
Serrell's Engineers; Engineer's and Artisans; New York Volunteer Corps of Engineers

per source
Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the Year ...By New York (State). Adjutant General's Office . Published by James B. Lyon, state printers, 1899
They have him listed as
First Engineers
ROSTASKY, CARL.—Age, 44 years. Enlisted, March 15, 1864, at New York city; mustered in as private, Go. M, March 15, 1864; appointed artificer, May 1, 1864; promoted corporal, May 1. 1865; mustered out with company, June 30, 1865, at Richmond, Va.


also you may want to locate a copy of
Roster of the First regiment N.Y. veteran vol. engineers, mustered into the U.S. service, Oct. 10th, 1861, mustered out of the U.S. service, June 30th, 1865. New York: George F. Nesbit & CO., printers, 1865.