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Confederate (CSV)

Private

WIlliam A. Love

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company K, 17th South Carolina Infantry on 9 December 1861 at Camp Hampton near Columbia, SC.

On the Campaign

He was in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was with his Company through the war until captured at Five Forks, VA on 1 April 1865. He was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD and released after taking an oath of allegiance on 28 June 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records, with his presence at "Boonsboro" from Colonel McMaster's list for the 17th South Carolina (Confederate States Army Casualty Lists and Narrative Reports, RG 109, NARA), as A. Love, online from fold3.

He may be William Alexander Love (1839-1923) buried in Cherokee County, SC.