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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Paul C. Allen

(c. 1839 - 1864)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a prosperous 21 year old merchant in the Barnwell District, SC. He enlisted at Summerville, SC, on 20 July 1861 and mustered as 3rd Sergeant of Company K (later A), First South Carolina Infantry. He was elected 3rd Lieutenant (Junior 2nd Lieutenant) at the reorganization of 12 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was in command of his company at the start of the Campaign.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to (Senior) 2nd Lieutenant by April 1863 and was mortally wounded in action in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He died at a hospital in Lynchburg, VA on 16 May 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Campaign detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839; Barnwell District, SC

Death

05/16/1864; Lynchburg, VA; burial in Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA

Notes

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 31997]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 75 [AotW citation 31998]

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