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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

LaBruce Mortimer

(c. 1842 - 1863)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a wealthy merchant, in 1860 he was an 18 year old student living with his father, two siblings, and (also wealthy) maternal grandmother Catharine LaBruce in Charleston, SC. He enlisted there on 12 April (or 1 May) 1861 and mustered on 22 May as a Private in Company I of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry. He was appointed 3rd Corporal by September 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 September and was on wounded furlough for the rest of the year. He was promoted to 4th Sergeant by February 1863 and was wounded again, mortally, at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July. He died on 4 July 1863, place not given.

His father filed a claim for his final pay of $109.17 in February 1864.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1842; Charleston, SC

Death

07/04/1863

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 32243]

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