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(c. 1844 - 1862)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 16 year old farm boy living with his parents and siblings at New Zion in the Clarendon District, SC. Giving his age as 18 he enlisted in the Sumter District and mustered as a Private in Company K, 23rd South Carolina Infantry on 15 November 1861.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His father James Madison Baker filed for his final pay of $75.23 in April 1863.
References & notes
His service from the Rolls,1 as Cornelius M. Baker, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, as C.W. Baker. Details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 and 1860, as Cornelius Baker and C.W. Baker, respectively. His memorial is on Findagrave as Cornelius Madison Baker; his middle name was probably not Madison and there is little chance he's actually buried in Antietam National Cemetery - no Confederates are known to have been buried there.
Birth
c. 1844; Clarendon County, SC
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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, Co. K, 23rd Infantry [AotW citation 23007]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29349]