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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Isham Lee

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 17, he enlisted at Columbia, SC on 8 April 1861 and mustered there as a Private in Company A, Second South Carolina Infantry on 5 June.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was sent to Fort McHenry and on 13 October to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He returned to duty about January 1863. He was sentenced by a court martial about June 1863 to forfeit one month's pay, charges not given. He was afterward with his company to at least September 1864, the latest record in his military file.

References & notes

His service from Salley1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Isom Lee.

Birth

c. 1844

Notes

1 Salley, Alexander S., Jr., compiler, South Carolina Troops in Confederate Service, 3 vols., Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1913-1930, Vol. 2, pp. 11 - 49 [AotW citation 13044]

2 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 32232]

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