Sanford Greene Howie

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer living with his parents, sister Frances, and 10 slaves on their farm near Walkersville in Union County, NC. He enrolled on 4 October 1861 and mustered as 2nd Lieutenant of Company F, 35th North Carolina Infantry on 6 November. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 21 April 1862.

He was with his company in combat at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. In that action

... Lieutenant-Colonel E. A. Palfrey, of the Nineteenth [sic] Massachusetts, and two other officers, were captured by Adjutant Clark and Lieutenant (after wards Captain) S. G. Howie, of Company F...

He was promoted again, to Captain on 17 December 1862. He was captured at Fort Stedman near Petersburg, VA on 25 March 1865, briefly held in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then sent to Fort Delaware on 30 March. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 17 June and was released.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer near Wolfville in Union County, NC.

The Sharpsburg quote from Clark.1 His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his memorial has him as Samuel Sanford Green Howie, a name he never used as an adult. The 1850 US Census has him as S.S.G. Howie but no other reference has the second "S."

He married Nancy Catherine Winchester (1840-1920) in November 1860 and they had 14 children.

10/30/1841; Union County, NC

09/05/1909; Union County, NC; burial in Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Union County, NC