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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Lewis J. Boazman

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old on his parent's substantial farm as Cross Hill in the Laurens District, SC. He enlisted at Boyd's Old Field in Laurens on 14 April 1861 as a Private in Company F, Third South Carolina Infantry. He was appointed Brevet 2nd Lieutenant/3rd Lieutenant on 13 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in a US field hospital on the Elias Grove farm near Sharpsburg and paroled on 29 September, but died of wounds there on 17 October 1862. He was originally buried "near fence above the Company House and among a lot of cedar bushes." His father William Boazman filed for his final pay in March 1863.

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett1, who lists him as L.J. Bozeman. Home and death details from Salley.2 Service details from his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, as Lewis G Boazman. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842; Newberry District, SC

Death

10/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4431]

2 Salley, Alexander S., Jr., editor, Tentative Roster of the Third Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, Confederate States Provisional Army, Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1908, pg. 71 [AotW citation 12831]

3 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 30268]

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