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(c. 1845 - 1903)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of Irish-born clerk William Rowan, in 1860 Samuel was a 15 year old clerk in Columbia, SC. Giving his age as 18, he enlisted there on 8 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, Second South Carolina Infantry on 22 May. He was appointed 3rd Corporal before September 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there. His arm was amputated at the left elbow.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 27 October and transferred to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 25 November for exchange. He was in a Petersburg, VA hospital by 4 December and furloughed home on 19 December 1862. He was on wounded furlough to June 1863 then on detail to the Ordnance and later Commissary Departments in Columbia, SC.
After the War
By 1877 he was a Clerk of Market and a bookkeeper back in Columbia, SC. He was Sheriff of Richland County, SC from 1881 to 1892. He was then an insurance agent for a number of companies, still in Columbia.
References & notes
His service from Salley1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details also in the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1880, the Columbia directory (1879-80), and Reports and Resolutions of the General Assembly (1892).
He married Mary Elizabeth Brown (1845-1896) and they had 4 children between 1866 and 1875.
Birth
c. 1845; Columbia, SC
Death
12/1903; Richland County, SC
1 Salley, Alexander S., Jr., compiler, South Carolina Troops in Confederate Service, 3 vols., Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1913-1930, Vol. 2, pp. 11 - 49 [AotW citation 13040]
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 32262]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #5.342 [AotW citation 32263]