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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel Gardner

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer on his parents' modest place at Hickory Head in the Lancaster District, SC. He enlisted at Lancaster Court House, SC on 28 April 1861 and mustered on 22 May as a Private in Company H of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 27 September, sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, then on to Fortress Monroe, VA on 18 October for exchange. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 29 October and furloughed home for 40 days on 20 November 1862. He returned to duty by August 1863. He was again wounded and captured, at Cedar Creek, VA in October 1864, with no later military record.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1841 in 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 32212]

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