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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Preston Taylor

(c. 1838 - 1863)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 23, from the Barnwell District, SC, he enlisted on 16 (or 18) August 1861 as a Private of Company H (later E), First South Carolina Infantry at Summerville, SC.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862:

Minie ball entered frontal bone above left eyebrow lodging within the cranium; when brought to Infirmary was comatose and left in the hands of the enemy three days after; still comatose and brain oozing freely from wound."

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 at Frederick, MD on 12 October and sent on to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on the 13th. He was sent on to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange the next day. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 23 October and furloughed home on 2 (or 12) November 1862. He "died in convulsions" 4 months after his wounding.

His mother Sarah filed for his final pay in December 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg and death details from the Memoirs.2 Frederick hospital detail also found in the Patient List.3

Birth

c. 1838

Death

01/1863; in SC

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 31948]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 241 [AotW citation 31949]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.033 [AotW citation 31950]

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