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Confederate (CSV)

Private

W. R. Long

(c. 1833 - 1863)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 28, he enlisted as Private, Company H, 7th South Carolina Infantry 15 April 1861.

On the Campaign

He was promoted to acting First Corporal on 14 September and wounded slightly in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was formally appointed First Corporal on 19 October and promoted to 4th Sergeant on 3 July 1863, probably on the field at Gettysburg, PA. He was killed at Chickamauga, GA on 20 September 1863.

References & notes

His service from Swain.1

Birth

c. 1833

Death

09/20/1863; Chickamauga, GA

Notes

1 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 565 [AotW citation 24565]

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