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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

William C. Dutton

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a prosperous shoemaker, in 1860 he was a 23 year old living with his parents and 4 siblings in Camden in the Kershaw District, SC. He enlisted there on 24 April 1861 and mustered as 3rd Sergeant of Company E of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry. He was First Sergeant by September 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and died of wounds on 20 September 1862, place not given.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1837 in SC

Death

09/20/1862

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 32202]

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