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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samil J. Crain

(? - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From the Laurens District, he was conscripted and enlisted on 1 July 1862 at Greenville as a Private in Company F, Third South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The rest of the War

He was treated in a US field hospital on the Lavinia Grove farm near Sharpsburg and died there of wounds, date not given. He was originally buried on the field at Sharpsburg near "Mrs. Lucker's" [Locker] barn.

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett1, who has him as Craine. Home, company, and wounding details from Salley2. His service from his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3.

Death

1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, 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 4633]

2 Salley, Alexander S., Jr., editor, Tentative Roster of the Third Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, Confederate States Provisional Army, Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1908, pg. 74 [AotW citation 12832]

3 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 30271]

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