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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry M. Hinnant

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 34, from Fairfield, he enlisted as Private, Company C, 12th South Carolina Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was probably treated at a field hospital near the battlefield and was briefly at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 15 and 16 October 1862 before being transferred to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, then on to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He returned to duty, date not given, and was surrendered with his Company at Appomattox, VA in 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Rolls.1 Frederick hospital detail from the Patient List,2 as H.M. Hainant. His exchange details from Randolph W. Kirkland, Jr.'s Dark Hours: South Carolina Soldiers, Sailors and Citizens who were held in US Prisons ... 1861-1865 (2002).

Birth

c. 1837

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 24350]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.063 [AotW citation 24351]

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