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(1838 - 1920)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private, Company B (later F), 5th South Carolina Infantry, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Boonsboro (Turner's Gap), on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was surrendered with his Company at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
He applied for a Confederate service pension in York County in September 1919.
References & notes
Service from his Compiled Service Records (via the Historical Data Systems database) and the Roll 1 for Company F, as J.H. Neely. His parole at Appomattox from an online list posted by the National Park Service. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah H. Robinson (1832-1887) in 1860.
Birth
09/21/1838
Death
02/20/1920; Clover, SC; burial in Woodside Cemetery, Clover, York County, SC
1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Company F, Fifth Regiment Infantry [AotW citation 22056]