Nathan Andrew Feaster

By the mid-1840s and to at least 1850 he was a successful retail merchant in Columbia, SC, but soon after returned to Fairfield County, and was the first postmaster at the new railroad town of Alston, SC (August 1850-1855). In 1860 he was a prosperous 39 year old planter with 15 slaves at Oil Camp in Greenville County, SC.

He enlisted there (or in Charleston, SC) on 5 May 1862 and mustered as First Sergeant of Company F, First South Carolina Infantry. He was wounded in action at Manassas, VA on 29 or 30 August.

He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his right hand, at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and sent to the rear. He "had to pass through a heavy fire and never since heard from."

He was listed as missing, later presumed dead.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details family genealogists, the US Census of 1850 & 1860, and Harvey S. Teal's South Carolina Postal History (1989).

He married Maria Louisa Rawles (1828-1848) in November 1846 and they had a daughter. He married again, Emeline E. Brown (1837-1855) in April 1854, but she died bearing him another daughter just over a year later. He married, thirdly, Annette Gerrard McClanahan (1829-1877) in December 1856 and they had 2 children.

His brother Andrew C Feaster (b. 1828), died in Virginia in 1862 while serving as 2nd Lieutenant of Company B, 17th South Carolina Infantry.

See an excellent 1844 portrait of a young Nathan A Feaster over on the blog.

10/08/1820; Feasterville, Fairfield County, SC

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD