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(1842 - 1910)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of wealthy planter William Knotts (1804-1871), in 1860 he was an 18 year old farm manager living with his parents, 5 siblings, and more than 50 slaves on the family plantation at Bull Swamp in the Lexington District, SC. He enlisted at Charleston, SC, on 13 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, First South Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, by a gunshot near his right shoulder.
The rest of the War
He was home on furlough to the end of 1862 and was appointed Corporal on 4 April 1863. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant on 1 February 1865 and was surrendered and paroled with his company at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
By 1880 he was a farmer in Elizabeth Township, Orangeburg County, SC. By 1900 he was living with his widowed sister Lizzy and farming at Woodford, SC, and in 1910 he was retired and living with his oldest son William and his family, back in Elizabeth, SC.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Maggie C. Perryclear (1848-1888) in February 1871 and they had 5 children.
His brother Joseph was Captain of his company at Sharpsburg.
Birth
02/16/1842; Lexington District, SC
Death
11/20/1910; burial in Bull Swamp Cemetery, North, SC
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 31991]
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 31992]