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(1828 - 1875)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 34 year old farm worker at Lancaster Court House, SC. He enlisted there on 28 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in what became Company D, First South Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was captured in Frederick, MD on 12 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 10 October, formally exchanged on 10 November, and was home on furlough from 19 October to 8 February 1863.
He was wounded on 6 May 1864, place not given, and with his company to at least February 1865, the last record in his military file.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Adaline Addison (1828-) and they had 5 children between 1852 and 1863; the last 2, Nancy and Mary probably died as small children (not in the 1870 Census).
Birth
1828; Lancaster District, SC
Death
1875; Lancaster County, 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 34071]