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Confederate (CSV)

Private

C. Evan Hayes

(c. 1838 - 1863)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 22 year old living with his widowed mother and 2 siblings on their farm at Gum Swamp in the Marion District, SC. He was conscripted and enlisted at Marion Court House, SC on 1 July 1862, and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 2 November and furloughed home for 60 days on 22 November 1862. He died on 11 April 1863, place not given, but probably in the Marion District, SC.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, as C.E. Hays. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 (which has his birth in Marion) & 1860.

Birth

c. 1838; Spartanburg District, SC

Death

04/11/1863; Marion District, 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 32224]

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