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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Thomas J. Davis

(c. 1833 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 27, from the Orangeburg District, he enlisted in Summerville, SC on 20 July 1861, and mustered as a Private in Company B (later K), First South Carolina Infantry. He was appointed First Sergeant, probably during the reorganization on 12 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, bruised on the left thigh by a piece of shell.

The rest of the War

He was with his company to November, but sent to a hospital on 16 December 1862 and died of pneumonia, date not given.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with South Mountain and death (on 15 December) details from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

Birth

c. 1833; Orangeburg DIstrict, SC

Death

12/1862

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 31983]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, pp. 258, 260 [AotW citation 31984]

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