Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Enlisted in Company H, Third Infantry, from Lexington District.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Promoted 3rd Corporal after 31 December 1862, to 2nd Corporal after May 1864. Wounded again in the Wilderness, VA in May 1864. Later a prisoner of war, he was in Point Lookout at the end of the War.
1 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, pp. 94 - 101 [AotW citation 12880]
2 Salley, Alexander S., Jr., compiler, South Carolina Troops in Confederate Service, 3 vols., Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1913-1930, Vol. 2, pg. 497 [AotW citation 12921]