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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Uriah S. L. Rucker

(c. 1831 - 1864)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 29 year old teacher on the Lewis H Dash (owned 32 slaves) plantation at St. Mathews in the Orangeburg District, SC. He enrolled on 20 August 1861 at Summerville, SC and mustered as a Private in Company B, First South Carolina Infantry. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 12 April (or 10 July) 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot through his left calf at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was furloughed home on 28 September and was absent, recovering, to August 1863. He was wounded again, at Lookout Valley, TN on 24 October 1863 by a gunshot through his right shoulder which fractured his shoulder blade. He was furloughed on 10 November and again absent to at least the end of 1863. He was killed in action in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1831 in SC

Death

05/06/1864; the WIlderness, VA; burial in Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA

Notes

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 31926]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 226 [AotW citation 31927]

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