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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Samuel Henry Stocker

(1839 - 1867)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Hampton (SC) Legion

Before Sharpsburg

A clerk in Charleston, he mustered as a Private in Company A of the Hampton Legion Infantry in 1861 and was promoted to Corporal in 1862. He was wounded at Seven Pines, VA on 30 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was appointed Sergeant in 1863, was wounded again at Dandridge, TN in January 1864, and was surrendered at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Rolls.1 Details from family genealogists and the 1860 US Census. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Juella T. Bull (1850-?) in January 1867 and they had a daughter Samuella.

Birth

04/17/1839; Charleston, SC

Death

09/20/1867; Orangeburg, SC; burial in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC

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, Roll of Company A, WLI, Hampton Legion, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24096]

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