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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Junius Tully Carr

(1841 - 1921)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Probably known as Tully, in 1860 he was a 19 year old living with 3 younger siblings and 20 slaves on his older brother John's plantation at Saint George in the Colleton District, SC. He enlisted on 1 May 1861 at Charleston, SC and mustered as a Private in Company I, 2nd South Carolina Infantry on 22 May.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a CS Army hospital in Culpeper, VA on 24 September and discharged for disability on 24 December 1862.

After the War

By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Koger Township, Colleton County (Dorchester County after 1897), SC. He had finally retired there by 1920.

References & notes

His service details from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1880-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Aurella Frances Caroline Murray (1847-1924) and they had 10 children between 1867 and 1891.

Birth

05/09/1841; Saint George, SC

Death

06/08/1921; Koger Township, Dorchester County, SC; burial in Appleby Methodist Church Cemetery, Saint George, SC

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 32191]

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