Charles Walter Smith's life

Charles Walter Smith, father to Walter Charles Smith and son to Richard Madison Smith.
  It most of been a tough life for Charles growing up. His father sold patent medicin for a while in his twenties. He dad, Richard Madison Smith would marry several times in his life and even spend time in prison for bigamy.
 Alaine, Richard's wife in one census is listed as head of house with her three sons and there is no mention of Richard. He could be in prison or she might of been disgusted by his womanizing and he no longer lived with them.
     Charles joined the New York Volunteers for the North becoming a member of the 72nd. He re-enlisted and might of been promoted, I'm not sure. I read over his two enlistment forms and I think in one he was listed as corporal. He served for the duration of the war and one letter from his wife survives asking him to send some money her way. It talkes about the health of the baby and how hard it is to survive without him.
  He returned from the war, became a New York City Police officer and retired around 1909 and bought property in Newburgh/New Windsor area which was called Long acres. I have a few pictures of it, but I don't know where it was. He lived there for a few years before moving to Montgomery St. where he died. He was interred in the local cemetery until his wife moved back to the city, to Queens. There was a big procession and a write up in the local paper about him. He is buried with his wife and father in North port Rural cemetery. The marker is gone. Wally said it was a five foot tall sandstone marker. The only thing that marks their grave is two side markers with the letter 's' on them. The officials of the cemetery don't know what happened to the marker. If it fell over it would of remainded there, My feeling is the extra plot was sold by the widow of Elbert Smith, Walters brother and when it was used the stone marker must of fallen apart and they removed it to bury their relative. Not a bit of the marker is visible in the grass.
 Many years after his death New York State passed a law that required citizens to turn in all unregistered guns. His children being good law abiding citizens turned his Civil War guns into the local police station. I imagine to this day those gun remain on the wall or in so display cabinet of a former police officer or his children.