Andrew Pinkney Spratt

In 1860 he was a 23 year old farmer living with his widowed mother Isabella, sister Hannah, and 8 slaves at Belair in the Lancaster District, SC. He enlisted at Charlotte, NC on 12 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 49th North Carolina Infantry.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 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 8 October, formally exchanged on 10 November and returned to duty on 26 January 1863.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right elbow joint in action near Bermuda Hundred, VA on 20 May 1864, and by August was on detached service at Charlotte, NC. He was assigned as a nurse to Way Hospital #6 in Charlotte on 11 October and was surrendered and paroled there on 3 May 1865.

By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Indian Land, SC. He'd retired there by 1920 and lived with his grand-nephew William Harris Howey and family.

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, 1880, 1910, & 1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

09/18/1836; Belair, SC

08/11/1925; Indian Land, SC; burial in Six Mile Cemetery, Indian Land, SC