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(c. 1839 - ?)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 21, he enlisted at Sumter, SC on 8 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry on 23 May in Richmond, VA.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a Manchester, VA hospital on 27 September and furloughed home. He was in Richmond, VA hospitals with "debility" and chronic bronchitis May - July 1863. He was deemed "unfit for field service" and detailed to the CS Quartermaster's Department at Columbia, SC on 2 March 1864. He was listed on his company's muster roll for May and June 1864 as "died in prison, date not known" with no later military record.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3.
Birth
c. 1839
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 32223]