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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Archibald Marion Harrison

"Archy"

(1834 - 1908)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 26 year old farmer in the Union District, SC. He enlisted in the Spartanburg District on 15 April 1862, 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, by a gunshot to his left arm near the elbow.

The rest of the War

He was back with his company by April 1863, but was sentenced to forfeit his pay from 1 to 18 April, charges not given. He was with his company until captured at Jetersville, Amelia County, VA on 6 April 1865. He was a prisoner at City Point and Newport News, VA, where he took an oath of allegiance and was released on 26 June 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Glenn Springs in Spartanburg County, SC.

References & notes

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

Birth

09/29/1834; Spartanburg DIstrict, SC

Death

11/28/1908; Spartanburg, SC; burial in Mount Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery, Buffalo, SC

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 31979]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 253 [AotW citation 31980]

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