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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

John C. Calhoun

(C. 1834 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 27, from Marlboro County, he enlisted as Private, Company K, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 13 April 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 18 June 1861 and to 3rd Sergeant, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Camp Winder hospital in Richmond, VA and was on furlough into February 1863.

After the War

He died before 1897.

References & notes

His service from the Rolls 1 and Brasington's Roster.2

Birth

C. 1834

Death

Date not known; 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 K, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24322]

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: /8scvicok.html [AotW citation 24323]

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