A brief biography of Charles Wesley Buvinger, Surgeon in the 80th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI) during the U.S. Civil War, is presented. He was born June 12, 1832 in Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania and died January 7, 1891. He married his wife Emma Priscilla Hunter in 1865 and worked in a private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania following the war's conclusion.