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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Samuel R. Pratt

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 22 year old farmer in the York District, he enlisted as a Corporal in Company A, 12th South Carolina Infantry on 20 August 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the Roll,1 with further information thanks to Barry Truluck from his Compiled Service Records via fold3.

His brothers John and William were also in Company A. John died in Richmond earlier in 1862. William was discharged after a severe wound in the Wilderness, VA in 1864.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 A, 12th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols.  [AotW citation 24333]