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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Eber B. Goins

(? - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 1 July 1862 in the Laurens District as a Private in Company A, 3rd South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in a US field hospital on the Lavinia Groves farm near Sharpsburg but died there, probably the same day. He was originally buried on the field at Sharpsburg near "Mrs. Lucker's" [Locker] barn. His widow Harriet filed for his final pay in January 1863.

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 as E.B. Goin. Company and death information from Salley,2 as Going, who says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg. Service from his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3, source also of his first name.

Death

09/17/1862; 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 4693]

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. 12 [AotW citation 12828]

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 30269]

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