Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private, Company C, 17th South Carolina Infantry on about 1 December 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Boonsboro (Turner's Gap) on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was listed as a deserter in 1864.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records (via the Historical Data Systems database), as J.L. Broom, and the Roll 1 for Company C.
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 C, Seventeenth Regiment Infantry [AotW citation 22075]