Willis Crouch

A 26 year old overseer in Leesville, Lexington District, he enlisted as Private, Company E, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861. He was "stunned" in action at Savage Station, VA on 29 June 1862.

He was left behind (or straggled) on the march in Maryland and captured by Federal troops near Urbanna, MD in September.

He was paroled at Urbana, was at Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 17 October, exchanged at Fortress Monroe, VA, and was back on duty in November 1862. He was slightly wounded at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December. He was wounded in the right arm in June 1864, place not given, and his arm was amputated. There is no later military record.

In 1870 he was a farmer in Edgefield County.

His service from Swain.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1870 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Matilda McGee (1838-c. 1880) in April 1866 and they had 6 children.

06/02/1834 in SC

1888; burial in Sardis Baptist Church Cemetery, Saluda, SC