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(1839 - c. 1905)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 21, he enlisted in Captain Coleman's Company at Trenton, Edgefield District in 1861, but they were rejected for Confederate service in June. He enlisted as Private, Company A, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 13 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 by 25 September and returned to duty about January 1863. He was reported missing at Fayetteville, PA in July 1863 on the Gettysburg Campaign, presumed captured, and never returned to his Company.
After the War
He was a farmer in Lampasas, TX in 1880 and he died there about 1905.
References & notes
His service from Swain,1 as Charles M. Harrigle. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1880.
He married Lucinda Melton (1844-1913) in Navarro, TX in September 1871 and they had 4 children.
Birth
10/17/1839 in SC
Death
c. 1905; Lampasas, TX
1 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 529 [AotW citation 24529]