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Confederate (CSV)

Private

H. R. Pellam

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 28 March 1862 at Coles Island, SC as a Private in Company F (soon after, G), First South Carolina Infantry. He was wounded at Manassas, VA on 29 or 30 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot which "carried away his right ring finger."

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 27 September and furloughed on 4 October. He was back with his company by April 1863. He was wounded again, on 16 November 1863 at Campbell's Station, TN, by a gunshot to the right side of his face, the bullet "lodging and becoming lost." He returned to duty briefly, then from 7 July to the end of 1864 he was in the Jackson Hospital in Richmond, VA as a patient and detailed as a nurse. He was furloughed home for 60 days on 23 January 1865 with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with wound detail from the Memoirs;2 both also as H.R. Pelham.

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 31969]

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, 259 [AotW citation 31970]

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