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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry Whitfield Ham

(c. 1841 - 1863)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 21 year old farmer on his father Henry's place in Darlington, he and his brother Judson enlisted as Privates in Company E, 8th South Carolina Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was killed at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863.

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls,1 as Whitfield Ham. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860.

Birth

c. 1841 in SC

Death

07/03/1863; Gettysburg, PA

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 24277]

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