4, 1889, to March 3, 1891. He was not a candidate for re-nomination to the Fifty-second Congress in 1890, but was subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ford on April 20, 1891. Belknap served from November 3, 1891, to March 3, 1893. He unsuccessfully contested the election of George F. Richardson to the Fifty-third Congress. He performed staff duty at Fort Oglethorpe during the Spanish–American War. Death He died in Grand Rapids and is interred in the Greenwood Cemetery there. Bibliography Belknap, Charles Eugene. Bentonville: what a bummer knows about it. Prepared by Companion Brevet Major Charles E. Belknap ... read at the stated meeting of January 4, 1893. [Washington: N.p., 1893]. —-. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863. Lansing, Michigan: R. Smith printing co., 1897. —-. The legend of the trailing arbutus. Grand Rapids: The Dean-Hicks press, 1924. —-. The yesterdays of Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids: The Dean-Hicks company, 1922. References External links Obituary: Captain Charles E. Belknap 1846–1929 21st Michigan Volunteer Infantry entry for Belknap 1846 births 1929 deaths Burials in Michigan Mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan People of Michigan in the American Civil War Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan People from Massena, New York People from Sparta, Michigan Union Army soldiers 19th-century American politicians