William Craig

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farm worker at Hickory Head in the Lancaster District, SC. He enlisted on 28 April 1861 at Lancaster Court House, SC and mustered as a Private in Company H, 2nd South Carolina Infantry on 22 May.

He was slightly wounded by a gunshot to his hip in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 27 September, and was detailed as an ambulance driver by the end of 1862. He remained on detail, later as a teamster, until returning to his company in about April 1864. He was paroled with them at Greensboro, NC on 2 May 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Taxahaw/Flat Creek in Lancaster County, SC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as William M. Craig. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married the widow Harriett Caroline Lowery Snipes (1842-1915) about 1866 and they had 11 children.

Easily confused with William Speed Craig (1839-1907), also of Company H, later K, of the 2nd SC Infantry.

c. 1839 in SC

c. 1915; burial in Blackmon Cemetery, Lancaster County, SC