T. S. Tippings

He enlisted as Private, Company F, 17th South Carolina Infantry on 27 November 1861 in Columbia, SC.

He was in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was captured at the Crate near Petersburg, VA on 30 July 1864. He was held at Point Lookout until transferred to Elmira, NY on 8 August 1864. He died there of disease on 9 May 1865.

His service from his Compiled Service Records, with his presence at "Boonsboro" and Sharpsburg from Colonel McMaster's list for the 17th South Carolina (Confederate States Army Casualty Lists and Narrative Reports, RG 109, NARA), also as T.S. Tipping, online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as T.S. Tippin.

Date not known in SC

05/09/1865; Elmira, NY; burial in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira, NY