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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William J. Jenkins

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, from the Fairfield District, he enlisted as Private, Company B, 17th South Carolina Infantry on 14 December 1861 at Camp Hampton near Columbia, SC.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Boonsboro (Turner's Gap) on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records via fold3, and the Roll 1 for Company B. His memorial is on Findagrave.

His widow Susan applied for his final pay in March 1863.

Birth

c. 1843; Fairfield District, SC

Death

09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1   Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Company B, Seventeenth Regiment Infantry  [AotW citation 22070]