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(c. 1831 - ?)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 30, he enlisted in Columbia, SC on 1 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 4 October and furlough on 10 October to Pendleton, SC. He transferred to Company B of the Palmetto Sharpshooters (First Regiment Palmetto Sharp Shooters, South Carolina Volunteers) on 2 February 1863 in exchange for T.J. Smith.
He was wounded again by a gunshot to his right arm in May 1864, probably in the Wilderness, VA and furloughed home from a hospital in Richmond, VA on 5 August. He was listed as absent without leave as of December 1864. He was captured at Anderson, SC on 19 May 1865 with no later military record.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3.
Birth
c. 1831
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 32247]