Henry S. Wingard

Enlisted in Company E, Third Infantry at Columbia, SC on 18 April 1861.

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

Wounded again at Knoxville, KY on 18 November 1863. Reported on the roll of 30 June 1864 as in the hands of the enemy. Kept at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, IN, and discharged after the surrender in 1865.

He was a Lutheran pastor and theologian; serving at Bethlehem Lutheran, Pomaria, SC and Ebenezer Church, near Savannah, GA. In 1883 he was secretary of the Board of Trustees for Newberry College. At the time of his death he was vice president of the United Synod of the South, and president of the Board of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mount Pleasant, Charleston, SC.

Basic information from Salley1. Further details from items collected from the Newberry Observer of 1878 to 1905 by Edith Greisser, Newberry County, South Carolina Genealogy Trails. He has a brief entry in Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia (1900).

1844; Lexington County, SC

12/1/1899; Savannah, GA; burial in Springfield, GA