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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Peter Morrell

(c. 1832 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 30, from Darlington County, he enlisted as Private, Company F, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 15 March 1862. He transferred to Company M, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls,1 which says he was killed on Maryland Heights on 13 September, and Brasington's Roster.2

Birth

c. 1832

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

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 M, 7th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24312]

2 Brasington, William Albert "Bil", 8th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (Rosters), Published 2014, first accessed 27 January 2018, <http://www.sciway3.net/sc-csa/carolinas-campaign/8scvi.html>, Source page: /8scvicof.html [AotW citation 24313]

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