Samuel Sebastian Zorn

Recently orphaned, in 1860 he was an 18 year old school teacher living with his 29 year old sister Rebecca, 8 other Zorns (siblings?), and 22 slaves on the family farm at Graham in the Barnwell District, SC. He enlisted at Coles Island, SC on 28 March 1862 as a Private in Company F (later G), First South Carolina Infantry. He was wounded at Manassas, VA on 29 or 30 August.

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

Minie ball entered behind left clavicle and near the shoulder passing outwards and downwards and becoming lost. Results: Permanent and complete paralysis of left arm.

He was paroled on 27 September and admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 12 October, sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on the 13th, then transferred on 14 October to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 22 October and furloughed home to March 1863, then listed as absent without leave to June 1863, the last record in his military file.

By 1880 he was a farmer in Barnwell County, SC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs,2 both as S.S. Zorn. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Ann Eaves (1845-1885?) in about 1871 and they had 5 sons. He married again, Emma Elizabeth Folk (1864-1945) in April 1884 and they had 2 daughters.

04/08/1842; Denmark, SC

04/18/1889; burial in Flat Pond Zorn Cemetery, Denmark, SC