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"Ludie"
(1844 - 1895)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
An unmarried 17 year old, he enlisted in Company A, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 5 December 1861 in Columbia, SC.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Fox's Gap on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Held at Fort Delaware, he was sent to Aikens Landing, VA and exchanged on 2 October 1862. He was ill and in hospitals in Virginia or on furlough on several occasions between November 1862 and December 1864, when he was discharged.
References & notes
Basic information from Davis1.
Birth
12/12/1844; Cross Hill, SC
Death
05/01/1895; Cross Hill, SC; burial in (First) Baptist Cemetery, Cross Hill, 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 15989]