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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Samuel Y. Rosborough

(1832 - 1870)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enrolled as 3rd Lieutenant of Company C, 12th South Carolina Infantry, and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was on furlough, and probably did not return to his Company. He was promoted to First Lieutenant in 1863 but was medically retired on 7 December 1864.

After the War

He was a farmer in Fairfield County.

References & notes

His service from the Rolls,1 as Samuel J. Rosborough, and Lt. J.R. Boyle's Reminiscences of the Civil War (1890). Thanks to Barry Truluck for further details from his Compiled Service Records via fold3 and the US Census of 1850-1870.

Birth

1832

Death

1870

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 C, 12th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24340]

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