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Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private, Company F, 17th South Carolina Infantry on 27 November 1861 in Columbia, SC.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Except for furlough home in February 1864 "arresting a deserter", he was present with his Company through the war until he was captured at Petersburg, VA on 25 March 1865. He was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until released on 15 May 1865.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records, with his wound at "Boonsboro" from Colonel McMaster's list for the 17th South Carolina (Confederate States Army Casualty Lists and Narrative Reports, RG 109, NARA), both online from fold3.