Michael P. Parker

He was a carpenter in Charleston and was elected 3rd Lieutenant of the Meagher Guard, a local militia company, in 1853. He was 2nd Lieutenant by 1861. He then enrolled in Company K, First South Carolina Infantry at its organization in Charleston on 25 June 1861 and was commissioned First Lieutenant. He was promoted to Captain 23 January 1862.

He was severely wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was absent, wounded to at least the end of 1863, on detached duty with the Provost Marshal in Augusta, GA to April 1864, and retired to the Invalid Corps on 2 November 1864.

He died in January 1868 from the effects of his wounds.

His basic service from Salley.1 The pointer to Parker and his service details are thanks to Barry Truluck from his research in his Compiled Service Records (via Fold3) and Caldwell.2 His death from a memorial in the Charleston Daily News of 27 January 1868. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

See much more about the Meagher Guard and Parker in an excellent article [pdf] by Bill Bynum in Company Front (Issue 1, 2011), the journal of The Society for the Preservation of the 26th Regiment North Carolina Troops.

1833; Dublin, IRELAND

01/10/1868; burial in Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, GA