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(c. 1838 - 1904)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 22 year old living with his widowed mother Martha in the Laurens District, SC. He enlisted there on 14 April 1861 and mustered in Columbia, SC on 6 June as a Private in Company A, 3rd South Carolina Infantry. He was in the division hospital in August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was probably in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD and later transferred south for exchange, dates not found. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #5 in Richmond, VA on 25 September and returned to duty on 11 November 1862. He was with his company to at least 15 December 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, NC on 2 May 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Laurens County, SC.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has his birth in 1841, but early census records, his age at enlistment, and his father's death in 1837 all suggest he was born in 1837 or 1838.
Birth
c. 1838; Laurens District, SC
Death
03/02/1904; in SC; burial in Ora ARP Church Cemetery, Gray Court, 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 34485]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #233 [AotW citation 34486]