Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kochersperger (1826—1867) was a Union Army officer with the 71st Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers Regiment.
In 1855, he purchased a private mail delivery company, Blood's Penny Post, which issued its own postage stamps and competed directly with the United States Postal Service.
He rose to second-in-command by Gettysburg and full command for the Wilderness, where he was severely wounded.
Kochersperger died from the long-term effects of his war wounds in Philadelphia on December 27, 1867, and was buried on Dec. 29 at the city's Odd Fellows Cemetery, now defunct.
His widow survived him by 45 years, dying in Darby, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 1912.