Hugh Alexander Douglas

Age 26, from Darlington County, he enlisted as 6th Corporal, Company G, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 13 April 1861 in Florence. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant at the reorganization of May 1862.

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

He was paroled, then exchanged at Aiken's Landing, Va on 8 November 1862. He resigned his commission and became a Private on 14 May 1863 and was slightly wounded in the arm at Chickamauga, GA in September 1863. He was on furlough through the first half of 1864 and was killed in action at Haw's Shop, VA on 28 May 1864.

His service information from the Rolls,1 which has him as Hugh J. Douglas and says that he was killed at Cedar Run, VA (19 October 1864), and Brasington's Roster.2 Personal details from family genealogists who have his name alternately as Hugh Alexander McArthur Douglass and Hugh Alexander McLucas Douglas. One has his death date as 17 March 1863, another on 17 March 1865.

He married Jemima H. Ousley (1842-1872) in August 1860 and they had a son James Robert (1861-1936) and a daughter Mary Catherine (1863-1890).

02/20/1835; Darlington County, SC

05/28/1864; Hanover County, VA