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(1835 - 1862)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted about 1 December 1861 in Company H, 17th South Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg and captured on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His left leg was amputated and he was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD, but died there of his wounds on 2 October 1862. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the [Mt Olivet] cemetery at Frederick" and was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett1. Hospital detail from the Patient List2, which has him as A.D. Calvin. Personal details from family genealogists. His service from his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. His memorial at Mt. Olivet is on Findagrave, and he may still be there.
Birth
1835; Barnwell District, SC
Death
10/02/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
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 4621]
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 #9.594 [AotW citation 21494]