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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Calvin Agnew

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private in Company B (later F), 6th South Carolina Infantry on 10 July 1861 in Summerville, SC.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at Shepherdstown, VA on 8 October 1862.

References & notes

His service and personal details thanks to Barry Truluck, from his research in Agnew's Compiled Service Records (via Fold3) and a Company Roll from the Confederate Rolls of South Carolina.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave, as is a memorial to him in Richburg, SC.

Birth

c. 1839; Chester County, SC

Death

10/08/1862; Shepherdstown, VA; burial in Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown, WV

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 [AotW citation 21824]

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