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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Solomon Turbeville, Jr.

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Infantry (Provisional Army)

Before Sharpsburg

A 17 year old carpenter's son in Marion, he enlisted as Private, Company E, South Carolina Infantry (1st Provisional Army) in Marion County in 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD but died there of wounds on 1 October 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 who lists him as S. Tuberville. Hospital and wound details from the Patient List,2 as S. Tobyville. His service basics from Salley3 and the Roll.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his modern stone has him as S. Turberville.

Birth

c. 1844; Marion, SC

Death

10/01/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4427]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #9.593 [AotW citation 21419]

3 Salley, Alexander S., Jr., compiler, South Carolina Troops in Confederate Service, 3 vols., Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1913-1930, Vol. 1, pg. 290 [AotW citation 24046]

4 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Roll of Company [C, sic] E, 1st Reg't, Gregg's, SC Vols. [AotW citation 24047]

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