(c. 1844 - 1862)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Giving his age as 20, he enlisted as Private, Company A, 17th South Carolina Infantry on about 1 December 1861.
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 the Historical Data Systems database) and the Roll 1 for Company A, which has him as Clifton Thraikill, killed in action at Boonsboro, NC. Details from family genealogists.
Birth
c. 1844
Death
09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD
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 A, Seventeenth Regiment Infantry [AotW citation 22068]