WIlliam Judson Crawley

He graduated from the South Carolina Military Academy (now the Citadel) in 1855 and in 1860 was a 27 year old farmer at Dumbarton in the Barnwell District, SC. He enrolled on 8 December 1861 at Barnwell, SC as Captain of what became Company D of the Holcombe Legion Infantry.

He was probably senior officer present with the Legion in Maryland in September 1862: Colonel Stevens had been assigned command of the brigade and Lieutenant Colonel Palmer was mortally wounded at Second Manassas in August.

He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on 5 December 1862. He was wounded, place not given, on 29 June 1864 and afterward in a hospital in Petersburg, VA and on furlough. He was promoted to Colonel on 27 October (to date from 28 September) but probably never returned to his regiment and was retired from active service to the Reserve Forces of South Carolina on 8 March 1865.

In 1870 he was farming at Appleby (Augusta) in Columbia County, GA and by 1880 and to at least 1900 in McDuffie County.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

11/06/1833; Barnwell, SC

01/29/1902; burial in Wrightsboro Methodist Church Cemetery, McDuffie County, GA