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C.W. Bell
(c. 1828 - 1863)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 32 year old farm worker at Williston in the Barnwell District, SC. He enlisted there on 1 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 2nd South Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again, mortally, at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863, and captured there. He died of his wounds in a US Army field hospital at Gettysburg on 15 July 1863.
References & notes
His service basics from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph contributed by Elizabeth Humble to the FamilySearch database.
He married Emily Johnson (1830-1910) and they had 5 children between 1849 and 1862.
Birth
c. 1828; Williston, SC
Death
07/15/1863; Gettysburg, PA
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 32186]