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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

William James McDowell

(1837 - 1927)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company K, 5th South Carolina Infantry and was commissioned Junior 2nd Lieutenant, dates not known.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot to the arm and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated briefly at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 12 to 13 October, then sent on to Baltimore, MD, probably for exchange.

After the War

He survived the war but lost his arm.

References & notes

Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,1 as Private McDowell. His service from the Roll.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary H. Foster (1836-1906) and they had 5 children.

Birth

04/22/1837; Spratanburg, SC

Death

01/16/1927; Spartanburg County, SC; burial in New Prospect Baptist Church Cemetery, New Prospect, SC

Notes

1 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #981 [AotW citation 22041]

2 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Company K, Fifth Regiment Infantry [AotW citation 22057]

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