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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jacob Robert Pow

"Jake"

(1844 - 1915)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 17 year old farmer from Richardsonville, Edgefield District, he enlisted as Private, Company E, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He did not return to his Company.

References & notes

His service from Swain,1 as J. Robert Pow. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Emma Elizabeth Boyd (1852-1885) in about 1872 and they had 5 children. His father's name was Jacob Pou, and his brother James and sister Margaret probably spelled their last names that way.

Birth

03/07/1844 in SC

Death

04/22/1915; in SC; burial in Emory United Methodist Church Cemetery, Saluda, SC

Notes

1 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 606 [AotW citation 24615]

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