Berry Argivis Jeter

Son of Baptist minister John Crosby Jeter (1795-1845), he was a planter of substantial means in the Union District, SC by 1850. He enlisted there on 12 January 1861 for a 6 month term and mustered for Confederate service on 23 April as a Private in Company E of the First Regiment South Carolina Volunteers. He mustered out with them in Richmond, VA on 9 July 1861. He enrolled again, in the Union District on 13 September 1861 and mustered in Columbia, SC as First Lieutenant of the Macbeth Light Artillery on 16 September.

He was in action with his battery at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Captain and command of the battery in about July 1863 to date from Captain Boyce's death in April 1863. He led his battery to the end of the war, disbanding them during a skirmish near Strawberry Springs, TN in mid-April 1865 and formally surrendering at Asheville, NC on 20 April.

He was a merchant in Union, SC to early in 1872, then traveled to Texas for new business opportunity or possibly to avoid arrest by US Marshals. He became ill and died at Chappell Hill, TX in June, then 43 years old.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His presence with the battery from Captain Boyce's Report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850, and his obituary in the Macon, GA Southern Christian Advocate of 28 August 1872. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by C.W. Scott.

He married Mary Hill (1847-1874) in 1870 and they had a son.

04/11/1829; Union District, SC

06/29/1872; Chappell Hill, TX; burial in Grace United Methodist Church Cemetery, Union County, SC