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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Daniel Asbury Button

(c. 1826 - 1891)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 35, from the York District, he enlisted as Private, Company H, 12th South Carolina Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was surrendered with his Company at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Rolls,1 as D.A. Button, and the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. His Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the Yorkville Enquirer of 8 October 1862. His presence at Appomattox from the US Park Service's Parole List [pdf].

Birth

c. 1826

Death

11/01/1891; burial in Laurelwood Cemetery, Rock Hill, SC

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 H, 12th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols.  [AotW citation 24401]