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(1832 - 1903)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 19, from the Union District, he enlisted as Private, Company D, 18th South Carolina Infantry about 1 February 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in his right arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He "lost" his arm, probably to amputation.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Brushy Creek, Anderson County.
References & notes
His service from the Roll 1 and the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 and 1880. His memorial is on Findagrave.
He married Arzilla Forrester (1833-1894) in about 1852 and they had 8 children.
His brother Fair Posey Sheriff (1834-1913) was in the 7th South Carolina Infantry and was wounded on Maryland Heights.
Birth
05/1832; Pickens District, SC
Death
1903
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, 18th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24899]