(c. 1827 - 1864)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private, Company H, 17th South Carolina Infantry on 9 December 1861 at Camp Hampton near 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
He was with his Company until he was mortally wounded about 2 July 1864, place not given. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 3 July and died there on 5 July.
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), online from fold3. Birth details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1827; Barnwell District, SC
Death
07/05/1864; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, VA