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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Charles Atwood Fisher

(1834 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Education: South Carolina College, Class of 1855

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A clerk's son, in 1860 he was a 24 year old teacher in a common school and lived with his parents and 3 siblings at Camden in the Kershaw District, SC. He enlisted on 26 August 1861 and mustered as 4th Sergeant, Company D, 15th South Carolina Infantry on 6 September. He was elected Brevet/Junior 2nd Lieutenant on 16 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there. His leg was amputated in a field hospital on or near the battlefield.

The rest of the War

He signed a parole at Sharpsburg on 23 September and died of wounds in the field hospital on the Smith farm near Sharpsburg on 24 September 1862. He was listed as exchanged on 8 November 1862 at Aikens' Landing, VA (which is unlikely).

His father applied for his final pay of $224.00 in February 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Roll 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. Thanks to James Hull for the pointer to Fisher and his connection with the South Carolina College.

Birth

12/16/1834

Death

09/24/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 D, 15th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24844]

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 32275]

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