Sidney Milton Key

Age 22, from the Barnwell District, SC, he enlisted on 20 July 1861 and mustered on 18 September as a Private in Company H (later E), First South Carolina Infantry at Fort Johnson, SC. He was promoted to 4th Corporal about February 1862 and to 4th Sergeant by September.

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

Simple fracture of middle finger of left hand by piece of shell striking his gun.

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 27 September and furloughed on 17 October. He was again a Private in April 1863. He was detailed as a musician on 8 March 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1880 he was a farmer in Warren Township, Colleton County, SC but in 1900 was farming at Beaufort, SC. By 1910 he was again a farmer in Warren, SC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs,2 both as S.M. Key. His Appomattox parole from a list hosted by the US Park Service. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amelia A. Warren (1847-1920) and they had 2 sons (born 1879, 1881). They also adopted a daughter, Frances Laura Adams (b. 1891).

08/29/1839 in SC

10/07/1919; Warrenton Township, Colleton County, SC; burial in Warren-Key Cemetery, Williams, SC