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(1836 - 1903)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A married 25 year old from Laurens, he enlisted in Company A, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 13 May 1862 at Adams Run, SC.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital, Philadelphia, PA on 1 October with pneumonia. He was transferred to to Fort Delaware on 28 November, sent on to Fortress Monroe, VA on 15 December, and exchanged by 1 February 1863. He was often ill in hospital or on furlough between then and October 1864. He was again captured, in action at Cedar Creek, VA on 19 October 1864. He was sent to Harpers Ferry, VA then held at Point Lookout, MD, finally released 29 June 1865.
References & notes
Birth
05/05/1836; Laurens District, SC
Death
08/28/1903; burial in Waterloo Cemetery, Laurens, 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 16026]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34490]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #217 [AotW citation 34494]