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(c. 1839 - 1862)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
His father died about the time he was born and by 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer on his widowed mother's place at Rock Hill in the York District, SC. He enlisted there on 13 August 1861 as a Private in Company H, 12th South Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the arm and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was paroled on 27 September but died of wounds that date. His mother Jane filed for his final pay in January 1863.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1839; York District, SC
Death
09/27/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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 H, 12th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24785]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30274]