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(c. 1833 - ?)
Home State: South Carolina
Education: SC Military Academy (later The Citadel)
Branch of Service: Staff
Unit: Law's Brigade
Before Sharpsburg
He was a 28 year old clerk at Florence, SC when he enlisted as Private, Company H, 4th Alabama Infantry on 28 April 1861. He was severely wounded in the thigh in action at First Manassas in July 1861, and discharged in January 1862. He returned as volunteer aide to General Law, date not given.
On the Campaign
From General Law's Sharpsburg Report:
The members of my staff-Lieutenant Terrell, assistant adjutant-general, Captain Kirkman, Lieutenant Law, of the Citadel Academy, and Private Smith, Fourth Alabama-as usual, performed every duty bravely and efficiently.
References & notes
Service from Krick.1
Birth
c. 1833 in AL
1 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pg. 194 [AotW citation 17564]