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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Issac G. Austin

(c. 1834 - 1864)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Company B, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion at age 27 on 5 December 1861 in Columbia, SC. He served as a Hospital Steward in April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 14 September 1862 at Fox's Gap.

The rest of the War

He was on furlough through December 1862. He was wounded severely, in the chest, in action at Chickamauga, GA on 20 September 1863, and was in the hospital in Atlanta, GA. He was killed in action at Spotsylvania, VA on 8 May 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from Davis1.

Birth

c. 1834; Cross Hill, Laurens District, SC

Death

05/08/1864; Spotsylvania, VA; burial in Confederate Cemetery, Spotsylvania, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Sam B., A History of the 3rd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Battalion (James Battalion): 1861-1865 , Wilmington (NC): Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 68-71, Roster [AotW citation 15924]

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