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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Wylie Hill Duncan

(1840 - 1881)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Third son of wealthy planter Perry Emory Duncan (1800-1867), in 1860 he was a 19 year old student living with his parents, 8 siblings, and 48 slaves at White Horse in the Greenville District, SC. He enlisted on 13 (or 15) April 1861 in Greenville, SC and mustered on 23 May as a Private in Company B, Second South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Manchester, VA on 27 September and discharged for disability on 19 March 1863. He may have had service in 1864 as Adjutant of the 64th North Carolina Infantry.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farmer living with his uncle Dr. William Moor Jordan in Wilkes County, GA. He was a grocer in Washington, GA by 1880.

References & notes

His service from Salley1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his birth in Georgia, and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He was named for his maternal grandfather Wylie Hill (1775-1844).

Birth

04/25/1840 in SC

Death

11/23/1881; Washington, GA; burial in Resthaven Cemetery, Washington, GA

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 13046]

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 32200]

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