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(1842 - 1906)
Home State: South Carolina
Education: US Military Academy, West Point, NY
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
At age 16 he was admitted as a cadet to West Point in July 1859, and he finished his first year (42nd of 44), but he left school after South Carolina seceded. He enrolled as 3rd Lieutenant, Company G, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 13 April 1861. He was appointed Adjutant of the regiment at the reorganization of May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again, severely, in the shoulder at Chickamauga, GA in September 1863, and again, at Berryville, VA in September 1864.
After the War
In 1870 he was farming at Red Hill, Marlboro County, and lived nearby in Bennettsville by 1880. In 1900 he was a dry goods merchant there. He was elected Clerk of the Court for Marlboro County from 1876 to 1892.
References & notes
His service from the Rolls 1 and Brasington's Roster.2 USMA information from the Official Register of the Officers and Cadets (1860). Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Griffin McLeod (1846-1899) in 1866 and they had 9 children. He married again, to Sara "Sadie" Dowdee (1878-1914) in June 1905.
Birth
09/12/1842; Clio, Marlboro District, SC
Death
01/12/1906; Bennettsville, SC; burial in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Bennettsville, 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 G, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24318]
2 Brasington, William Albert "Bil", 8th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (Rosters), Published 2014, first accessed 27 January 2018, <http://www.sciway3.net/sc-csa/carolinas-campaign/8scvi.html>, Source page: /8scvicog.html [AotW citation 24319]