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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William B. Harkness

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 26 year old farmer in Diamond Hill, Abbeville District, he enlisted as Private, Company D, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from Swain.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860.

Birth

c. 1835

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pp. 528-29  [AotW citation 24527]