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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Amos Lemuel Nunnery

(? - 1911)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as First Sergeant, Company A, 17th South Carolina Infantry o 18 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was with his Company through the war until he was captured in action at the Crater near Petersburg, VA on 30 July 1864. He was held briefly at Point Lookout, MD from 5 to 8 August, then transferred to Elmira, NY. He was released on 14 June 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records, online from fold3. His presence at Turner's Gap from his testimony at Colonel McMaster's March 1863 court martial [pdf]. His gravesite is on Findagrave (that birth year seems unlikely).

Birth

Date not known in SC

Death

1911