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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Bryant L. Youngblood

(1830 - c. 1910)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 31 year old tin peddler at Dorn's Mills, Edgefield District, he enlisted as 2nd Sergeant, Company G, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861. He was promoted to First Sergeant on 13 May 1862 at the reorganization.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in action on Maryland Heights, MD near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He returned to duty in September 1863. He was wounded again, at Chickamauga, GA on 20 September 1863, at Cold Harbor, VA in June 1864, and at Cedar Creek, VA in October 1864. He was surrendered on 26 April 1865 and paroled at Greensboro, NC on 2 May 1865.

After the War

He was living in Saluda, SC in 1900.

References & notes

His service from the Roll,1 as R.S. Youngblood, and Swain.2 Personal details from family genealogists.

His brother Densley was also in Company G and wounded in Maryland.

Birth

02/1830; Edgefield District, SC

Death

c. 1910; in 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 G, 7th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24208]

2 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 682 [AotW citation 24697]

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