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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Andrew J. Kersh

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his father and 13 slaves on their farm in the Barnwell District, SC. He enlisted on 20 July 1861 at Summerville, SC as a Private in Company F (later G), First South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot through his right thigh.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 26 September and furloughed home on 31 October. He was back with his Company by April 1863, but died of typhoid fever at a hospital in Jerusalem (now Courtland), VA on 30 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg and death details from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843; Barnwell District, SC

Death

05/30/1863; Jerusalem, VA; burial in Courtland Baptist Church Cemetery, Southampton 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 31967]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, pp. 248, 251 [AotW citation 31968]

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