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(c. 1831 - ?)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Brooks (SC) Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
Giving his age as 30, he enlisted in Charleston on 12 May 1861 as a Private in Captain Rhett's Brooks Guard, later Company K, 2nd South Carolina Infantry - the "Palmetto Regiment." In December 1861, along with most of his company, he went to Richmond, VA with Captain A.B. Rhett and mustered into the Brooks Artillery on their organization on 28 January 1862. He was slightly wounded in the leg on 30 August 1862 at Manassas, VA.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was captured at Shepherdstown, VA on 30 September (or 3 January 1863) and sent to Baltimore. He was initially held in a warehouse known as the Soldier's Rest, then in a hospital in the former National Hotel before being sent to Fort McHenry on 27 January 1863. On arrival there he noted:
On Tuesday evening we were conveyed under escort to this memorable den. Imagine our feelings after such lavish kindness, nursing and petting as we have had from the ladies of Shepherdstown, Virginia, and now having to submit to the gross indignity of living in a filthy, crowded horse stable - forty rebels occupying the space for twelve horses …He was paroled there soon after and sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 31 January. He was admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 2 February and furloughed for 60 days on 15 March. He was absent from his battery to at least the end of 1863 (receiving pay in Charleston, SC), then on detached service after March 1864 and to at least February 1865, with no later military record.
References & notes
Casualty information from Elliott.1 Service basics from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The quote above and further details from a letter he wrote one of his former nurses, Nettie Lee in Shepherdstown on 29 January 1863, found in a piece (pdf) by Alexandra Lee Levin in Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 73, No. 4 (December 1978).
Birth
c. 1831
1 Elliott, William, Casualties in the Brooks Artillery, Charleston Mecrcury, Charleston: Charleston Mecrury, 1862 [AotW citation 5379]
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 31340]