(1833 - 1919)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 27 year old farmer in the Spartanburg District, he enlisted as Private, Company C, 22nd South Carolina Infantry about 15 January 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Beech Spring in Spartanburg County.
References & notes
His service from the Roll,1 as Wilie Vaughan, and the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database, as Wiley Vaughn. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Rebecca Jane Christopher (1831-1914) and they had at least 5 children.
Birth
08/28/1833 in SC
Death
03/15/1919; Spartanburg County, SC; burial in Duncan First Baptist Church Cemetery, Duncan, SC
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 C, 22nd Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24941]