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D. Livingston
(1827 - 1881)
Home State: South Carolina
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 34 year old planter (with 19 slaves) at Bull Swamp in the Orangeburg District, he was commissioned the original Captain of Company B (later H), First South Carolina (Hagood's) Infantry on 20 July 1861. He was appointed Major on 12 July 1862, was wounded at Second Manassas on 29 or 30 August, and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on 1 September 1862.
On the Campaign
He commanded the regiment on the Maryland Campaign and was wounded again (or "fainted" from the heat), in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was absent without leave after August 1863 and resigned his commission on 19 May 1864. His former commanding officer Colonel Johnson Hagood later wrote of him:
Livingston succeeded [W.H.] Duncan [resigned in January 1863] and retained the command somewhat longer, when he resigned. Neither of these officers distinguished themselves and the regiment suffered in discipline and usefulness in their hands.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in the Hebron Township, Orangeburg County and operated a mill there.
References & notes
His service from the Roll 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound from Colonel Walker's Report, with description of his "fainting" from J.R. Hagood.3 The Johnson Hagood quote above from his Memoirs of the War of Secession (1910). Personal details from the US Census of 1860-1880 and family genealogists; source also of his picture, from a photograph of unknown provenance. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Narcissus McColphine Fanning (1828-1913) about 1849 and they had 13 children between 1850 and 1871.
Birth
11/17/1827; Livingston, Orangeburg District, SC
Death
10/28/1881; Orangeburg County, SC; burial in Hebron Methodist Church South Cemetery, Livingston, SC
1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Roll of Company B, 1st Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 25013]
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 32012]
3 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, pp. 85, 89 [AotW citation 32013]