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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Robert H. Ward

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 23, he enlisted as 2nd Sergeant of Company E, 8th South Carolina Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, at Chickamauga, GA in September 1863, and died of disease in Virginia before the end of the war, date not given.

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls.1

Birth

c. 1838

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 E, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols.  [AotW citation 24261]