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S.Y. Beck
(1830 - 1863)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 30 year old farmer with a modest place at Franklin in Heard County, GA. He enlisted and mustered at Bowdon in Carroll County, GA on 30 July 1861 as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot, probably at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 23 September and listed as deserting from there on 3 (or 31) October, but was on wounded furlough home into December 1862. He was killed at Chancellorsville, VA on 4 May 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph shared to the FamilySearch database by user Gellrb in June 2022.
He married Elizabeth Letitia Dyer (1831-1911) in 1853 and they had 4 children.
His brother Thomas David Beck (1842-1941) was also in Company B, may have been with him in Maryland, and was disabled by a wound at Chancellorsville.
Birth
12/11/1830; Carroll County, GA
Death
05/04/1863; Chancellorsville, VA
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 33714]