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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Hugh L. Phillips

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 25 year old farm worker in the Union District, SC. He enlisted at Lancaster Court House, SC on 28 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry on 22 May.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His widow Hester applied for his final pay of $81.23 in October 1862.

References & notes

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

He married Hester (?) in 1853 and they had 3 children by 1859.

Birth

c. 1835; Lancaster District, SC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 32257]

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