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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Julius Franklin McGee

(1841 - 1893)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 21 year old farmer at Anderson Court House, he enlisted as Private in Company F, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 9 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sent home on a wounded furlough and did not return to his Company.

After the War

By 1880 he was a farmer at Savannah in Anderson County, SC.

References & notes

His service from the Roll,1 which has him as Julius W. McGee and says he was killed on Maryland Heights, and Swain.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Elias was also wounded on Maryland Heights.

Birth

07/16/1841; Anderson District, SC

Death

06/04/1893; Columbia, SC; burial in Starr Baptist Church Cemetery, Starr, SC

Notes

1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Roll of Company F, 7th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24578]

2 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 573 [AotW citation 24579]

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