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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Waddy Thompson Irby

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a wealthy planter, he had attended Furman University, Greenville, SC in 1853, and was a freshman at South Carolina College in 1859. In 1860 he was a 17 year old student living at the College in Columbia, SC. He enlisted in Company B, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 8 April 1862 at Adams Run, SC.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. There is a memorial to him in the Laurens City Cemetery.

His father was Colonel James Henderson Irby (1793-1860) - who was also a lawyer, State legislator (1826-51) and Lieutenant Governor (1852-54).

Birth

c. 1841; Laurens District, SC

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Sam B., A History of the 3rd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Battalion (James Battalion): 1861-1865 , Wilmington (NC): Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 68-71, Roster [AotW citation 15994]

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