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(1837 - 1909)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as 2nd Corporal in Company C, 6th South Carolina Infantry on 2 July 1861 in Ridgeville, SC. He was slightly wounded at Seven Pines, VA in 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded (probably in the left leg) in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He returned to duty in January 1863 and was promoted to 2nd Sergeant that Spring. He was wounded again, in the hand on 10 May 1864 and in both thighs on 19 June 1864.
After the War
He was a fisherman in Sumter County, SC at the 1880 Federal Census and was a farmer in Carpenter, FL by 1900.
References & notes
His service and personal details thanks to Barry Truluck, from his research in the US Census (1860, 1880, 1900), McLeod's Compiled Service Records (via Fold3), a Company Roll from the Confederate Rolls of South Carolina 1, and the South Carolina Compiled Marriage Index (1641-1965). His memorial is on Findagrave.
He married Clara J. Lockhart (1841-1905) in 1859.
Birth
07/20/1837
Death
05/16/1909; burial in Cypress Community Cemetery, Cypress, FL
1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898 [AotW citation 21821]