Upon release, early in 1865, he was told to leave the United States within ten days and not return south.
As such, he travelled to England, then Halifax, Nova Scotia, before returning to Savannah after the war.
[2] He was a member of the faculty of Savannah Medical College in 1869, five years before he set up his own practice in the city.
[2] His first wife died in 1882; he remarried the following year, to Julia Turner Johnston,[2] daughter of George H.
[2] Charlton died at his 145 Perry Street home in Savannah on December 8, 1886, aged 53.