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(? - 1863)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Company I, Third Infantry on 14 April 1861 and mustered into Confederate service on 6 June 1861 at Columbia, SC. He reenlisted on 13 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, losing a leg.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds in Frederick, MD on 2 May 1863. Originally buried "on west side of cemetery at Frederick." Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
More on the Web
His medical case is detailed in the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion online from the US National Library of Medicine.
Death
05/05/1863; 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 4914]
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. 538 [AotW citation 12876]