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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Peter Alonzo Turnage

(1839 - 1911)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 21 year old farmer on his mother's place near Cheraw in Chesterfield County, he enlisted in 1861 as Corporal in Company B, 8th South Carolina Infantry, and was promoted to Sergeant. He was commissioned Junior 2nd Lieutenant on 13 May 1862 and promoted to 2nd Lieutenant (26 May) and First Lieutenant (30 July).

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He resigned his commission in 1863.

After the War

By 1880 - and to at least 1900 - he was farming his own place in Red Hill, Marlboro County.

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Harriet H. Fee (1846-1933) in 1865 and they had 9 children; 2 sons and 7 daughters.

Birth

08/02/1839; Chesterfield County, SC

Death

06/21/1911; Marlboro County, SC; burial in Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Bennettsville, 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 B, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24251]

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