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(c. 1843 - 1862)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Macbeth (SC) Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 10 siblings on their farm in the Union District, SC. He enlisted on 13 September 1861 in the Union District, SC, and mustered in Columbia on 16 September as a Private in the Macbeth Light Artillery.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds on 17 or 18 September and was originally buried in Shepherdstown, VA.
His father Thomas filed a claim for his final pay in May 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His mortal wounding from Captain Boyce's Report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His burial detail from an account by a battery member writing as "Vidi" in the Weekly Union (SC) Times of 9 July 1886, thanks to Dan Masters.
Birth
c. 1843; Union District, SC
Death
09/18/1862; Shepherdtown, VA
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 34037]