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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Franklin P. Johnson

"Frank"

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer living with his parents, 97 year old paternal grandmother Sarah, aunt Jane, 5 siblings, and 9 slaves on the family plantation at Greenwood in the Abbeville District, SC. He enlisted there on 14 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

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.

His father John B. Johnson filed for his final pay of $75.23 in June 1863.

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1 His service from Salley2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brother David was wounded at Sharpsburg.

Birth

c. 1840; Abbeville District, SC

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 4763]

2 Salley, Alexander S., Jr., compiler, South Carolina Troops in Confederate Service, 3 vols., Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1913-1930, Vol. 2, pg. 169 [AotW citation 13028]

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 32229]

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