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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Jacob Huiet

(1840 - 1889)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An 21 year old merchant in Oakland, Edgefield District, he enlisted as 5th Corporal, Company E, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861. He reenlisted, as First Corporal, in Company M on 11 February 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in his right arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His arm was amputated in a hospital near Winchester, VA and he was in Chimborazo Hospital #1 in Richmond by 8 November. He was furloughed for 60 days on 15 November and promoted to 5th Sergeant to date from 1 December 1862. He was discharged for disability on 11 February 1863.

After the War

By 1880 he was farming at Huiet Township, Edgefield County, SC.

References & notes

His service from Swain.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the 1880 US Census. His gravesite is on Findagrave, as Jacob Eugene Huiet III (?).

His brother John was in Company M and also wounded at Sharpsburg.

He married Mary Ann "Mollie" Davenport (1845-1926) in about 1863 and they had 9 children.

Birth

03/18/1840; Saluda, SC

Death

03/18/1889; Saluda County, SC; burial in Huiet Family Cemetery, Saluda County, SC

Notes

1   Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 542  [AotW citation 24542]