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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

John Malachi Rivers

(1843 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

About age 17, he enlisted as Private in Company B, 8th South Carolina Infantry, and was promoted to 2nd Sergeant on 13 May 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls.1 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

02/02/1843 in SC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Hopewell Baptist Church Cemetery, Chesterfield, 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 24252]

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