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S.W. Vaught
(1841 - 1918)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private, Company L, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 21 June 1861 at Conwayborough.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862 and captured some time afterward.
The rest of the War
He was listed as a prisoner to at least 31 October 1862. He was on the rolls of his regiment to June 1864, when he was reported absent, sick or wounded since March.
More on the Web
Service and other details from the Horry County Historical Society via their Patriot Tree Project, as is his picture. He's in the Rolls 1 as Shedrick W. Vaught. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
05/31/1841; Horry County, SC
Death
03/02/1918; Loris, SC; burial in Hardee Cemetery, Loris, SC
1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Roll of Company L, 7th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24235]