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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Thomas Elijah Dawkins

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Education: Wofford College, Class of 1860

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Macbeth (SC) Artillery

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer living with his widowed mother and 6 siblings on their prosperous farm in the Union District, SC. He enlisted there on 13 September 1861 and mustered in Columbia, SC on 16 September as a Private in the Macbeth Light Artillery. He was appointed 4th Corporal by 31 October and promoted to Sergeant sometime after April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His death from Captain Boyce's Report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850 & 1860, and David Duncan Wallace's History of Wofford College: 1854-1949 (1951), online from the college; Wallace has him killed at 2nd Manassas in August.

Birth

01/01/1839 in SC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 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 34039]

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