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(c. 1833 - 1895)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Macbeth (SC) Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
From Union Court House, he enlisted in the Union District, SC on 12 January 1861 and mustered as 5th Corporal of Company E of the First Regiment South Carolina Volunteers for 6 months' service. He mustered out in Richmond, VA on 9 July 1861. He enrolled again, in the Union District, SC on 13 September 1861, and mustered in Columbia on 16 September as Junior First Lieutenant of the Macbeth Light Artillery.
On the Campaign
He was with his battery in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was with his battery to at least the end of 1864 and was promoted to Senior First Lieutenant on 13 February 1864.
After the War
By 1868 and to at least 1880 he was a retail dry goods merchant as S. W. Porter & Company in Columbia, SC.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His presence in Maryland from an account by a battery veteran writing as "Vidi" in the Weekly Union (SC) Times of 9 July 1886, thanks to Dan Masters. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Nancy Caroline Goudelock (1844-1909).
Birth
c. 1833; Union District, SC
Death
11/15/1895; burial in Episcopal Church of the Nativity Cemetery, Union, 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 34041]