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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel Cook

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 22 year old farm worker at Anderson Court House, Anderson District, he enrolled as Private, Company H, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 1 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of fever (and probably his wound) at a hospital in Staunton, VA on 7 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from Swain.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

10/07/1862; Staunton, VA; burial in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, VA

Notes

1   Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 473  [AotW citation 24472]