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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Stephen Evander McWhite

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, he enlisted as Private, Company H, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 5 May 1861, and was promoted to 4th Corporal on 2 June 1861. He was appointed Sergeant, date not known.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862, noted as being "recklessly brave."

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls,1 as E. McWhite and A.A. McWhite, and his Compiled Service Records, as S. Evander McWhite. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

05/16/1842; Marion County, SC

Death

09/13/1862; Maryland Heights, MD; burial in Mount Zion Cemetery, Pamplico, 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 [AotW citation 24288]

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