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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Whitfield Laboon

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 22 year old farm worker at Bushy Creek in the Anderson District, he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 1 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from Swain,1 who has him alternately as Whitaker Laboon.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 557  [AotW citation 24559]