(1839 - 1885)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Company G, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 6 February 1862 at Columbia, SC at age 25.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in action on 14 September 1862 at Fox's Gap.
The rest of the War
He was in hospitals at Richmond and Petersburg, VA, and returned to his Company on 3 February 1863. He was wounded in action at Chancellorsville (3 May 1864) and Cold Harbor, VA (1 June 1864, in booth thighs). He was treated in Williamsburg, VA and Raleigh, NC. By September he was in the General Military Hospital, Wilmington, NC with acute colitis. He returned to duty 9 December 1864.
Birth
1839; Fairfield County, SC
Death
1885; Orangeburg County, SC; burial in Elmwood Memorial Gardens, Columbia, 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 15975]