(1844 - 1919)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 16 year old farm boy from Pleasant Lane, Edgefield District, he enlisted as Private, Company H, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861. He reenlisted in Company A in April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 25 September 1862. He was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 4 May 1863 and by a gunshot to the wrist on the North Anna River, VA on 23 May 1864. He was in the Jackson Hospital in Richmond to 24 July, then furloughed with no further military record.
References & notes
Birth
09/13/1844
Death
11/22/1919; Greenwood, SC; burial in Berea Baptist Church Cemetery, Edgefield, SC
1 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 524 [AotW citation 24524]