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(1841 - 1862)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 19 year old dry goods store clerk living with his wealthy widowed mother (who owned 11 slaves) and 4 siblings in Charleston, SC. He enlisted there on 1 May 1861 and mustered as First Sergeant of Company I, Second South Carolina Infantry on 22 May. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant on the reorganization of 13 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
He died on Levinia Grove's farm and was originally buried on the field at Sharpsburg near "Mrs. Lucker's" [Locker] barn.
His mother Sarah Jane filed for his final pay of $175.33 in February 1863.
After the War
He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett1. Service data from Salley,2 who says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg, and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. He has a memorial in the Second Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Charleston, online on Findagrave.
Birth
11/18/1841 in SC
Death
09/00/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
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 4935]
2 Salley, Alexander S., Jr., compiler, South Carolina Troops in Confederate Service, 3 vols., Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1913-1930, Vol. 2, pp. 229-230 [AotW citation 13029]
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 32261]