Washington David Cook

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farm worker living with his parents, 5 or 6 siblings, and 3 slaves on a farm at Bull Swamp in the Orangeburg District, SC. He enlisted for a one year term at Summerville, SC, on 20 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E (later K), First South Carolina Infantry. He reenlisted at Coles Island, SC on 23 March (or 11 April) 1862, for the war.

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

He was wounded again, in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and afterwards was with his company to the end of the war. He was surrendered and paroled with them at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1880 he was farming, still living with his parents and 2 brothers, in Elizabeth Township, Orangeburg County, SC, but by 1900 he was married and farming his own place in Woodford, SC.

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

He married Mary Elizabeth Hoover (1841-1933) in about 1881.

1840; Orangeburg District, SC

06/02/1915; Elizabeth, SC; burial in Penn Branch Baptist Church Cemetery, North, SC