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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry B. Risher

(c. 1833 - 1864)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 27 year old farmer living with his parents, 4 siblings, and 3 slaves on their farm at Walterboro in the Colleton District, SC. He enlisted at Summerville, SC on 22 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F (later G), First South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, shot through the right thigh.

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Richmopnd, VA by 30 September. He was appointed First Corporal by November 1862, promoted to 4th Sergeant by April 1863, to 3rd Sergeant on 26 June, and 2nd Sergeant on 31 August 1863. He was killed in action near Petersburg, VA on 20 July 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with South Mountain detail from the Memoirs,2 both as H.B. Risher. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1833; Colleton District, SC

Death

07/19/1864; Petersburg, VA; burial in Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Dinwiddie County, VA

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 31959]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 248 [AotW citation 31960]

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