Esau Num Haigler

In 1860 he was a 25 year old farmer living next door to his widowed mother's plantation, and near several of his siblings at St. Matthews in the Orangeburg District, SC. He enlisted there on 1 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

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

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 27 September and returned to duty on 21 October 1862. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his knee on 2 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA and "left in the hands of the enemy" there. He was treated at the US Army's DeCamp General Hospital in New York Harbor from 21 July, and sent from there to City Point, VA for exchange on 27 September. He was again in a Richmond hospital by 29 September 1863, with no later military record.

By 1880 he was farming in Goodby's Township, Orangeburg County.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880.

He married Caroline M. Hungerpillar (1840-1900) in February 1860 and they had 9 children.

His brother William was also wounded at Sharpsburg.