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(? - 1862)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted on 1 April 1862 at Coles Island, SC as a Private in Company K, First South Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was with his company on the Maryland Campaign, and was left behind in a Frederick, MD hospital on 10 September 1862, probably ill.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General hospital #1 in Frederick on 18 September and died there on 4 October 1862. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the [Mt Olivet] cemetery at Frederick."
His family filed a claim for his final pay in April 1863.
After the War
He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
His burial information from Pruett1. He is also listed among the Confederate soldiers still buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD (source of his date of death), and may still be there. His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His stones at Mt Olivet are on Findagrave (with the wrong regiment listed).
Birth
Date not known; Lexington District, SC
Death
10/04/1862; 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 4758]