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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Thomas E. Morris

(1844 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, he enlisted as 4th Corporal of Company E, 8th South Carolina Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 while carrying the regimental colors.

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

02/01/1844

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery, Florence, 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 E, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24263]

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