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(1833 - 1902)
Home State: South Carolina
Education: South Carolina Military Academy, Class of 1855
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He graduated from the South Carolina Military Academy (now the Citadel) in 1855 and in 1860 was a 27 year old farmer at Dumbarton in the Barnwell District, SC. He enrolled on 8 December 1861 at Barnwell, SC as Captain of what became Company D of the Holcombe Legion Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was probably senior officer present with the Legion in Maryland in September 1862: Colonel Stevens had been assigned command of the brigade and Lieutenant Colonel Palmer was mortally wounded at Second Manassas in August.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on 5 December 1862. He was wounded, place not given, on 29 June 1864 and afterward in a hospital in Petersburg, VA and on furlough. He was promoted to Colonel on 27 October (to date from 28 September) but probably never returned to his regiment and was retired from active service to the Reserve Forces of South Carolina on 8 March 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was farming at Appleby (Augusta) in Columbia County, GA and by 1880 and to at least 1900 in McDuffie County.
References & notes
Birth
11/06/1833; Barnwell, SC
Death
01/29/1902; burial in Wrightsboro Methodist Church Cemetery, McDuffie County, GA
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 30461]