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(1840 - 1905)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 21, he enlisted at Summerville, SC on 22 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, First South Carolina Infantry. He was appointed 4th Corporal of Company G at the reorganization of April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, shot through the left thigh.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 September and returned to duty on 10 November 1862. He was 2nd Corporal by April 1863, promoted to First Corporal on 26 June, and to 4th Sergeant on 31 August. He was promoted again, to 3rd Sergeant on 14 August 1864 and was surrendered and paroled on 9 April 1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA.
After the War
In 1880 he was working in a cotton mill in Augusta, GA, but by 1900 was a grocer there.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with South Mountain detail from the Memoirs,2 both as J.E. Steely. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Claudia J Smith (1848-1925) and they had two daughters, born in 1878 and 1885.
Birth
03/12/1840 in SC
Death
04/17/1905; Augusta, GA; burial in Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, GA
1 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 31957]
2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 247 [AotW citation 31958]