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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas D. Knotts

(c. 1833 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 38, from the Orangeburg District, he enlisted in Summerville, SC on 20 August 1861, and mustered as a Private in Company B (later K), First South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, a

Minie ball passed through lung; another ball caused flesh wound across the lumbar regions. Left in the enemy's hands and supposed to be dead.

There are no later Federal or Confederate military records.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with South Mountain detail from the Memoirs.2

Birth

c. 1833

Death

09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD

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 31981]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 258 [AotW citation 31982]

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