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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel Kitchens Atkinson

(1836 - 1878)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Darlington County, he enlisted as Private, Company E, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 10 September 1861 in Virginia.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry, VA on 13 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a hospital in Charlottesville, VA and was First Sergeant by 31 October 1862. He was slightly wounded in the head at Bean's Station, TN on 14 December 1863 and was on furlough to the end of the year. He was a Lieutenant by the time he was surrendered at Greensboro, NC in 1865.

References & notes

His information from the Rolls,1 as Samuel R. Atkinson, and Brasington's Roster,2 as Samuel Kinchen Athinson. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

10/25/1836

Death

10/20/1878; in SC; burial in Lake Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery, Darlington 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 E, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24308]

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: /8scvicoe.html [AotW citation 24309]

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