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(1840 - 1902)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 21 year old farmer from the Barnwell District, SC, he enlisted on 20 July 1861 at Summerville, SC and mustered as a Private in Company H (later C), First South Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 suffering a "flesh wound by minie ball through nape of the neck."
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 September, furloughed home on 10 October, and was absent, recovering, through the rest of 1862. He was slightly wounded on 28 October 1863 and more seriously, shot through the right lung, on 15 November 1863. He returned to duty about September 1864 and was with his company to their surrender and parole at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Barnwell County.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with wound details from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary (?; c. 1842-) by 1870. He married again, Rosa Mae/May Weathersbee (1865-1947) in about 1897 and they had a daughter Thelma (1898-1971).
Birth
05/27/1840; Barnwell District, SC
Death
09/15/1902; burial in Hair Cemetery, Elko, SC
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 31934]
2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 230 [AotW citation 31935]