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(1846 - 1912)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 15 or 16 year old farm boy in Marion County, he enlisted as Private, 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 reported missing, date and place not given.
After the War
He was a farmer in Hillsboro, Marion County to at least 1900 but was living at Pages Mill in Dillon County at the time of his death at age 65 in 1912.
References & notes
Basic service information from the Rolls.1 The index to the Compiled Confederate Military Service Records has him in Company L. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His death place from an announcement in the Greenwood Daily Journal of 19 March 1912. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Hannah Elizabeth Hays (1844-1910) about 1866 and they had 4 children.
Birth
08/09/1846; Marion, SC
Death
03/12/1912; Pages Mill, SC; burial in Bear Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery, Lake View, SC
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 24273]