Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Charles Jackson Paine was an American railroad executive, soldier, and yachtsman who was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Paine was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard in 1853 and made a considerable fortune in railroad enterprises. In 1861 he entered the Federal service as a captain in the 22nd Massachusetts Infantry. The next year he was sent to Ship Island, Mississippi. In October, he was commissioned as the colonel of the 2nd Louisiana Volunteers, a black regiment. During the siege of Port Hudson he commanded a brigade.