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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Bogan Sports

(c. 1821 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 23rd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 39 year old laborer living near his Taylor in-laws at Bennettsville in the Marlboro District, SC. He enlisted on 17 October 1861 as a Private in Captain R.C. Emanuel's Company, Hatch's Battalion Coast Rangers, who became Company G, 23rd South Carolina Infantry in November 1861.

On the Campaign

He died in Maryland on 9 (or 10) September 1862. He may have been wounded and died of that cause, but his military record does not specify.

The rest of the War

His widow Susan filed for his final pay of $47.30 in January 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, as Bogan Sport. His gravesite is on Findagrave; and has his death place as South Carolina. Thanks to great-great-grandson James C. Morgan for the pointer to Private Sports.

He married Susannah Taylor (1833-) and they had at least 5 children between 1851 and 1861.

Birth

c. 1821 in NC

Death

09/10/1862; in MD

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29290]

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