B. Arnold Mack

In 1860 he was a 21 year old living with his parents, 9 siblings, and 24 slaves on the family plantation at Bull Swamp in the Orangeburg District, SC. He enlisted in Summerville, SC on 20 August 1861, and mustered as a Private in Company B (later K), First South Carolina Infantry. He was 4th Sergeant by Sharpsburg.

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

He was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 2 January 1863, but was absent in hospitals and on furlough for most of the period from May to December 1863. He was detailed to arrest deserters in South Carolina from February through August 1864 and promoted to First Lieutenant on 5 August, but was again absent, in hospitals and on furlough, for much of the remainder of 1864 due to his Sharpsburg wound. He was furloughed home for the last time on 7 December and retired to the Invalid Corps on 13 December 1864.

By then listed as a doctor, he died in 1869, about 30 years old.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1839

04/28/1869; burial in Bull Swamp Cemetery, North, SC