Roderick Moses McLeod

Age 18 year, from Manning, Clarendon District, he enlisted as Private, Company I, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 9 August 1862.

He was wounded by a gunshot to the head in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 28 September. He returned to duty in January 1863 and was present with his Company to July 1864 with no further military record.

In 1900 he was a machinist in Yalobusha County, MS.

His service from Swain.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Kate Ester "Katie" Morrison (1854-1907) and they had 9 children.

03/10/1844

12/19/1916; burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Water Valley, MS