John Martin Rushton

The 2nd son of a wealthy plantation owner at Lott's, Edgefield District, he was a student at the Medical College in Augusta, GA in 1860 and 1861, then returned home and enlisted as Private, Company G, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 4 June 1861. He reenlisted in Company M on 11 February 1862 as 5th Sergeant.

He was wounded by gunshot to his right shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was furloughed home in October 1862. By the beginning of 1864 he had been certified as disabled, with "anchylosis" - stiffening or fusion of the joint - of his shoulder, had received an exemption from active service, and was teaching school in Edgefield. He applied for admission to the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond in October 1864, was a student there that winter, and graduated on 10 March 1865.

By 1880 he was a physician practicing in Mobley, Edgefield County, SC.

His service from Swain.1 Here's a synopsis of his service records after Sharpsburg:

Furloughed in October 1862, promoted to 4th Sergeant on 1 December, to 3rd Sergeant on 27 May 1863, and 2nd Sergeant in about May 1864. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 17 November 1864 with a gunshot to his right shoulder. He was a patient into December then detailed as an attendant in the smallpox ward at Howard's Grove Hospital there. He was retired on 9 March 1865. He was surrendered and paroled at Augusta, GA on 25 May 1865.

01/02/1837; Edgefield District, SC

04/02/1889; Edgefield County, SC; burial in Bethlehem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Saluda County, SC