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"Sam"
(c. 1834 - ?)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Cavalry
Before Sharpsburg
A 27 year old planter on his father's substantial place in St Peter's Parish, Beaufort, he enlisted as Private, Company C - the Beaufort Troop - of the Cavalry Battalion, Hampton's Legion on 12 June 1861. His Company became B of the 2nd SC Cavalry in August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was left in Frederick, MD on 12 September 1862 to care for wounded Lieutenant Broughton and captured with him there.
The rest of the War
He was exchanged and returned to his Company, dates not given. He was captured again, at Martinsburg, VA on 17 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort McHenry in Baltimore until 15 September, then sent to Point Lookout, MD. He was in the post hospital there from 26 October to 15 January 1864, and transferred to Camp Lee in Richmond, VA for exchange on 10 February 1865.
After the War
By 1866 he was operating Rose Hill Plantation in the Beaufort District.
References & notes
His service from the Roll 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, both as B. Samuel Heape. Frederick details from Edward Prioleau Henderson's Autobiography of Arab (1901); Henderson was a Sergeant in Company B and Arab was the name of his horse. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. Post-war detail from the Beaufort District, South Carolina Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, 1866.
Birth
c. 1834 in 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 B, 2nd Reg't Cavalry, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 25389]
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 34974]