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(1841 - 1922)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He came to Mississippi from South Carolina with his family in 1854 and in 1860 was a 19 year old living with his parents and siblings on the family farm in Smith County, MS. He enlisted on 4 May 1861 in Raleigh, MS, and mustered as a Private in Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his abdomen in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by November and returned to his Company on 13 February 1863. He was detailed as a musician from about December 1863 through October 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a school teacher at China Grove in Pike County, MS but by 1900 was a surveyor at Fernwood in Pike County. In 1910 he was living with his daughter Lela and her family in Hattiesburg, MS.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as David O. Summers. A casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862 has him as D.O. Sumner, wounded in the arm at Sharpsburg. His Appomattox parole is on the Park Service List [pdf] as D.O. Summers. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1870, 1900, and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Elizabeth Jane Watts (1843-1927) in December 1869 and they had 7 children.
Birth
02/16/1841; Newberry District, SC
Death
06/18/1922; Newton, MS; burial in Oaklawn Cemetery, Hattiesburg, MS
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 29682]