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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thompson Barfield

(C. 1841 - 1881)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A painter from the Marion District, he enlisted as Private, Company I, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 13 April (or September) 1861. He was ill later in 1861 and into the Spring of 1862. He transferred to Company L in April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the neck in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, VA and was appointed 4th Corporal in October while on furlough. He returned to duty by December 1862. He may have been promoted to Sergeant and was wounded again, in the foot at Chickamauga, GA in September, and his foot was amputated. He was in hospitals or on furlough due to his wound to at least June 1864, and he was retired to the Invalid Corps at Charleston, SC in January 1865.

After the War

He went to Madison County, VA in 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Rolls 1 and Brasington's Roster.2 His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Ann Huffman () in June 1865 and they had 5 children.

His brother Marsden (1843-1924) was also in Company L.

Birth

C. 1841; Marion District, SC

Death

06/1881; in VA

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 L, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24320]

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: /8scvicoi.html [AotW citation 24321]

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