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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jacob Ashburn Kaminer

(c. 1837 - 1883)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer at Draft's Mill in the Lexington District, SC. He enlisted on 31 March 1862 at Coles Island, SC and mustered as a Private in Company B, First South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot through his left forearm.

The rest of the War

He was on wounded furlough from 5 October to 5 December and returned to his company by April 1863. He served with them to the surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farmer at Jonesboro in Craighead County, AR. In 1880 he was a farmer at Cache Township in Greene County, AR; his wife's parents George and Espy Gartman were living with him.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880.

He married Cornelia P Gartman (1838-1901) and they had 9 children between 1858 and 1877.

Birth

c. 1837; Lexington District, SC

Death

1883; Greene County, AR

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 31930]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 226 [AotW citation 31931]

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