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(? - 1864)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From the Chester District, he enlisted as Private, Company D, 17th South Carolina Infantry on 14 January 1862 at Camp Hampton near Columbia, SC.
On the Campaign
He was listed as missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was captured at the Crater near Petersburg, VA on 30 July 1864. He was briefly a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD then sent on to Elmira, NY on 8 August, where he died of pneumonia on 9 November 1864.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 with his status at Sharpsburg from Colonel McMaster's list for the 17th South Carolina (Confederate States Army Casualty Lists and Narrative Reports, RG 109, NARA), online from fold3.
Death
11/09/1864; Elmira, NY; burial in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira, NY
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 27756]