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(? - 1863)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Company F, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 30 January 1862 at Columbia, SC.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action on 14 September 1862 at Fox's Gap.
The rest of the War
Held at Fort Delaware, he was sent to Aikens Landing, VA and exchanged on 9 November 1862. He returned to his Company in January 1863. He was mortally wounded by gunshot to his left lung at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and captured there. He was treated at Letterman General Hospital, Gettysburg, where he died on 14 August 1863.
After the War
He was originally buried on the Camp Letterman grounds, but removed and reinterred at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC on 10 May 1871.
References & notes
Basic information from Davis1.
Death
08/14/1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC
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 15972]