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(1813 - 1891)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 48 year old tailor in Selkirk, Marion County, he enlisted as Private, Company I, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 13 April 1861. He was appointed 5th Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded furlough to the end of October 1862 and in hospital on the rolls to August 1863. He was slightly wounded at Chickamauga, GA in September 1863 and discharged on 10 June 1864 at the end of his enlistment and for being over-age.
References & notes
His service information from the Rolls,1 as James Fenagham, and Brasington's Roster.2 as James Fenagan. Personal details from family genealogists - at least one of whom has his birth place as Ireland - and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Eliza Ann ? (1820-1903) and they had 6 children between 1846 and 1857.
Birth
03/15/1813 in HOLLAND
Death
03/15/1891; burial in Platt Cemetery, Dillon, 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, Roll of Company I, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24292]
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 24293]