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(c. 1839 - 1871)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: Hampton (SC) Legion
Before Sharpsburg
Giving his age as 26, he mustered as a Private in Company A, Hampton Legion Infantry on 12 June 1861 in Charleston, SC. He was promoted to Corporal on 30 July and was 4th Corporal by October. He was promoted again, to 5th Sergeant on 31 December 1861. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 25 April (or 11 June) 1862.
On the Campaign
He was seriously wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to First Lieutenant to date from Sharpsburg, 17 September, and was acting adjutant in camp at Martinsburg, VA by 23 September. He offered his resignation due to ill health from a chronic bowel affliction on 27 November and was discharged on 8 January 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was a clerk in a dry goods store in Charleston, SC.
References & notes
His service from the Rolls,1 as W.E.O. Connor, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, as W. Edmund O'Connor. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870. His death from a notice in the Charleston Daily News of 2 December 1871 and the South Carolina, Charleston City Death Records, 1821-1926.
Birth
c. 1839 in SC
Death
11/30/1871; Charleston, SC
1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Roll of Company A, WLI, Hampton Legion, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24094]
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 30926]