Charles Pitt was an English medical doctor who went missing in Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War and probably at the Battle of Carillon in 1758. He was originally from Tewkesbury, England. According to a letter written by a descendant (Mrs Miller) in the nineteenth century: "Dr Pitt was sent out as surgeon to the then wilderness of British Colonies, at that period, there was constant warfare going on between the French and English, each had Indian allies, the difficulties getting from place to place was impressed upon my childish mind when we lived in Quebec and travelled to New York; the places seemed very remote from civilisation. We could only wonder how and why the British army ever penetrated such vasts forest and why they could not let the French enjoy their possessions an