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(c. 1836 - 1926)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer at Walterboro in the Colleton District, SC. He enlisted at Summerville, SC on 20 July 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, by a gunshot that "carried away middle, ring, and little finger of left hand."
The rest of the War
He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 27 September. He was furloughed home on 6 October and his furlough was extended to 15 March 1863, but he was afterward listed as absent without leave. He did not return to duty.
After the War
By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a blacksmith, gunsmith, and wheelwright at Brunson in Hampton County, SC. In December 1920, by then an 84 year old widower living in Fairfax, SC, he was admitted to the Confederate Infirmary (Soldiers' Home) in Columbia, SC.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with South Mountain detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 and 1880-1910, and South Carolina, Confederate Home Records, 1909-1958, online from FamilySearch. His possible gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Eva R. (?; 1837-1899). He married again, Levelia Amelia Moore (1849-1919) in 1900.
Birth
c. 1836 in SC
Death
07/17/1926; Columbia, 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 31961]
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 31962]