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(c. 1832 - 1862)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 29 year old farmer at Meeting Street in the Edgefield District, he enlisted as Private, Company K, 14th South Carolina Infantry about 1 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died in a hospital in Richmond, VA on 30 December 1862.
References & notes
His service from the Roll 1 and the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database, as Henry Ourts. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 and 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mararet Adaline McDonald (1836-1883) in 1853 and they had 4 children.
Birth
c. 1832; Edgefield District, SC
Death
12/30/1862; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
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 K, 14th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24812]