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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Samuel C. Cusack

(1843 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

About age 18, he enlisted as Private, Company I, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 13 April 1861. He was appointed 3rd Corporal before September 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the neck in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, VA on 29 September and on furlough by the end of October. He returned to duty after February 1863, was promoted to Sergeant by June and was wounded again, in the forearm at Gettysburg, PA in July. He was treated at the Howard's Grove and Jackson Hospitals in Richmond into August, was on furlough to about February 1864, then back with his Company. He was captured in the action at Berryville Road (Third Winchester) on 19 September 1864 and held at Camp Chase, OH. He was surrendered at Greensboro, NC on 26 April 1865.

After the War

He lived to at least 1902.

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls 1 and Brasington's Roster.2 Birth details from family genealogists. His brother George Wainwright Cusack (1840-1905) was 2nd Lieutenant of the Company.

Birth

1843; Marion County, SC

Notes

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 I, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24290]

2 Brasington, William Albert "Bil", 8th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (Rosters), Published 2014, first accessed 27 January 2018, <http://www.sciway3.net/sc-csa/carolinas-campaign/8scvi.html>, Source page: /8scvicoi.html [AotW citation 24291]

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