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(1844 - 1904)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 16 year old laborer living with his parents, 3 siblings, and 11 slaves on the family farm at Glenn Springs in the Spartanburg District, SC. He enlisted on 15 April 1862 at Spartanburg, SC and mustered in Charleston, SC on 3 May as a Private in Company H, First South Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, his "right foot crushed by fragment of shell; circular amputation just above the ankle."
The rest of the War
He was "transported in ambulance 70 miles. Gangrene of stump for two inches resulted. Leg re-amputated in middle third." He never returned to his company and was finally retired to the Invalid Corps at Columbia, SC on 21 October 1864.
After the War
In 1870 he was living with his parents and Aunt Aveline in Glenn Springs, SC. By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Glenn Springs.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg and wound details from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Emily Mayes (1856-1945) and they had 7 children between 1878 and 1899.
Birth
03/29/1844 in SC
Death
01/18/1904; burial in West Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, West Springs, 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 31975]
2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 252 [AotW citation 31976]