Nimrod M. Hughey

In 1850 he was a 7 year old living with his parents Philip and Nancy on their farm in Randolph County, AL. In 1860 he was a 16 year old farm worker on the John and Jerusha McCord plantation (11 or 13 slaves) at Abbeville Court House in the Abbeville District, SC. He enlisted there on 11 February 1861 and mustered on 17 May as a Private in Battery D of the First South Carolina Light Artillery, them at Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbor. He was discharged at the end of his term of service on 11 February 1862. He enlisted again, at Greenwood, SC on 24 March 1862, and mustered as a Private in Company F, Second South Carolina Infantry.

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September, captured there, and died in a US Army field hospital on Levinia Grove's farm near Sharpsburg.

He was originally buried "in Col. Miller's woods, west of church along the line fence between Miller and Mrs. Lucker [Locker]" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg.

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

Burial information from Pruett,1 who lists him as N.M. Hugney. His service from Salley,2 who says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg, and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1850 (which has his birth in Alabama) & 1860.

c. 1844; Abbeville District, SC

09/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD