Nathan Thomas Hiers

A 24 year old farmer from the Barnwell District, SC, he enlisted on 1 September 1861 at Coles Island, SC and mustered on 5 September as a Private in Company L (later C), First South Carolina Infantry. He was discharged for disability on 24 October and was in a hospital afterward, but reenlisted, in Company C, on 18 May 1862 in Charleston, SC.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 when a "minie ball struck front of right thigh breaking knife in the pocket and causing severe contusion."

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 26 September and furloughed to Midway, SC from 30 September to 29 October and was back on duty by April 1863. He was with his company to February 1865, then listed as absent without leave, with no later military record.

In 1910 he was a farmer at Goethe in Hampton County, SC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs,2 both as N.T. Hiers. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Ann Chassereau (1838-1885) and they had 8 children between 1863 and 1882. He married again, the widow Rebecca Agnes “Becky” Bishop Chassereau (1850-1891) in 1886; she had 8 children from her previous marriage.

07/16/1837 in SC

08/20/1916; burial in Saint Johns Baptist Church Cemetery, Ehrhardt, SC