Andrew Calhoun Davis

An unmarried 24 year old clerk from the Richland District, he enlisted in Company F, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 20 April 1862 in Columbia, SC. He was appointed Ordnance Sergeant 1 July 1862.

He was captured while on guard detail with Brigade ordnance wagons heading for the Potomac River early on 15 September 1862, by Federal cavalry which had just broken out of Harpers Ferry.

Held at Fort Delaware, he was sent to Aikens Landing, VA and exchanged on 2 October 1862. Paroled at Greensboro, SC as Ordnance Sergeant, 3rd South Carolina Infantry.

He was in business in Columbia, worked in the offices of the Columbia Canal company, and worked at the Columbia Duck Mill (which manufactured cotton duck fabric).

Basic information from Davis1, who has his burial place as First Presbyterian Cemetery, Columbia, SC. His memorial is on Findagrave, source of additional life details.

11/12/1838; Washington, DC

03/21/1924; Columbia, SC; burial in Elmwood Memorial Gardens, Columbia, SC