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(1833 - 1910)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A married 24 year old from the Laurens District, he enlisted as Corporal in Company E, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 2 January 1862 in Columbia, SC. He was appointed Sergeant Major on 1 March 1862, and elected 2nd Lieutenant on 30 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded severely in the "lower extremities" in action at Fox's Gap on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Furloughed through at least February 1863, he resigned on 1 April 1863 for wounds. He was on detached duty in Laurens County to the end of the War.
After the War
A member of the state Constitutional Convention in 1895, he was living at Rapley's, Laurens County in 1904.
References & notes
Basic information from Davis1.
Birth
06/14/1833; Laurens District, SC
Death
11/10/1910; burial in New Harmony Baptist Cemetery, Fountain Inn, 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 15985]