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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Simeon Adams

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 21, from Kirk's Crossroads in the Edgefield District, he enlisted as Private, Company G, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal about January 1862 and to 5th Sergeant 13 May 1862. He was promoted again, to 4th Sergeant about August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the Rolls 1 and Swain.2

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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, Roll of Company G, 7th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24209]

2 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 421 [AotW citation 24411]

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