(1841 - 1925)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A married 20 year old, he enlisted in Company B, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 5 December 1861 at Columbia, SC.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg at Fox's Gap in action on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was at the Winder Division Hospital #1, Richmond, VA and returned to duty on 21 October 1862. He was fined two months' pay by a Court Martial in late 1863 or early 1864, charges not stated. He was paroled at Greensboro, NC on 2 May 1865 as Private, Company F, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment.
After the War
His right leg was amputated due to complications from his 1862 wound in June 1905, and he applied for an artificial one in 1907. He was a farmer living in Laurens in 1912.
References & notes
Birth
03/06/1841
Death
11/22/1925; Spartanburg, SC; burial in Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery, Gray Court, 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 16051]