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(1842 - 1864)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Brooks (SC) Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents on their modest farm in the Pickens District, SC. He enlisted at Pendleton, SC on 14 April 1861 for 1 years' service as a Private in Company H, 4th South Carolina Infantry. He enlisted again, on 28 December, and mustered in with Captain Rhett's Company (the Brooks Light Artillery) at its organization on 28 January 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded "below the left clavicle" in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He was sent to Chimborazo Hospital # 1 in Richmond, VA on 4 October and returned to service on 4 December. He was detailed as a blacksmith in March-April 1863. He was wounded in the lower left jaw at Gettysburg on 2 July 1863 and captured there on 4 July. He was sent to the US Army General Hospital in Chester, PA, then to Point Lookout, MD on 4 October. He was exchanged on 16 March 1864 at City Point, VA and returned to his Company. He was killed at Spotsylvania, VA on 9 May 1864.
References & notes
His wounding from Elliott1, with details by Dave Hann. His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 (as Franklin Allgood). His memorial in Pickens, SC is on Findagrave.
Birth
11/15/1842; Pickens District, SC
Death
05/09/1864; Spotsylvania, VA
1 Elliott, William, Casualties in the Brooks Artillery, Charleston Mecrcury, Charleston: Charleston Mecrury, 1862 [AotW citation 5369]
2 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 30403]