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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Simpson Foster

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 22, he enlisted as Private in Company D, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 13 April 1861. He was sick in Virginia hospitals May - July 1862 and returned to duty on 14 July.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls 1 and the Roster.2

Birth

c. 1839

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 D, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24258]

1 Brasington, William Albert "Bil", 8th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (Rosters), Published 2014, first accessed 27 January 2018, <http://www.sciway3.net/sc-csa/carolinas-campaign/8scvi.html>, Source page: /8scvicod.html [AotW citation 24259]

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