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(1829 - 1909)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 28 year old farmer in the Barnwell District, SC, probably going by Wiley. He enlisted there on 1 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.
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 furloughed home on 6 October 1862. He did not return, and was listed as absent without leave after 1 November 1863 and to December 1864, the latest record in his military file.
After the War
In 1870 he was a wheelwright at Blackville in Barnwell County but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Orangeburg County.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as J.W. Reid. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900, also as J.W. Read. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Louvisa Clementine Hair (1833-1908) and they had 10 children between 1853 and 1874.
Birth
05/04/1829; Barnwell District, SC
Death
10/09/1909; Barnwell County, SC; burial in Reed-Odom Family Cemetery, Blackville, SC
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 32260]