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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Nicholas Wilson

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Education: South Carolina Military Academy (Citadel), Class of 1861;Class Rank: 14

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From the Chester District, SC, he was admitted as a cadet to the Citadel Academy in 1858 at age 16 and graduated in 1861. He served as a volunteer Drillmaster, CSA and enlisted as a Private in Company D, 17th South Carolina Infantry, date not given.

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 the Roll 1 for Company D. Citadel details from the Graduates 2 and the Citadel Official Register (1860). Personal details from the US Census of 1860 (then a resident student at the Citadel, Charleston). His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841 in SC

Death

09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD

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, Company D, Seventeenth Regiment Infantry [AotW citation 22081]

2 Military College of South Carolina, Register of Graduates of the Citadel: the Military College of South Carolina, Charleston 1846-1922, Charleston: Military College of South Carolina, 1922, p. 10 [AotW citation 32249]

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