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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin J. Harrelson

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 21, from Conwayboro in the Horry District, he enlisted as Private, Company L, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 26 June 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the Rolls,1 as B.J. Harrilson, and Swain.2 He's also seen as B. J. Haroldson.

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 L, 7th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24230]

2 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 529 [AotW citation 24528]

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