33 year old Corporal Algernon S Wallace enlisted as Corporal, Company B, 44th Alabama Infantry in March 1862 and was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September. He left a wife and 5 children on his large Bibb County farm. His heavily retouched photograph was posted to the Family Search database [free membership required] by family genealogists.
Year: 2020
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David L Bozeman
Here’s a picture of Daniel Lee Bozeman who enrolled in the new 44th Alabama Infantry in March 1862 as 2nd Lieutenant of Company A, and was with the regiment in action at Sharpsburg in September. Unfortunately he was mortally wounded at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 8 May 1864 and died there a week later. His photograph was contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Bob Atchison.
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Hilliard J Askew
Private Hilliard J Askew enlisted as a Private in Company D of the 11th Alabama Infantry in June 1861. He was with his Company at Sharpsburg, was wounded at Gettysburg, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in November 1864, and survived the war. This photograph of him was contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Stanley A. Hutson.
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‘Blind Sam’ Campbell, Yorkville Enquirer (1895)
Samuel Leroy Campbell, First Lieutenant of Company H, 18th South Carolina was shot through the head and left for dead near Turner’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862. He was found by locals two days later, blind but alive. He was exchanged in November 1862 and furloughed home.
This clipping from the Yorkville Enquirer of 2 October 1895 alludes to his post-war profession of pumping water for the trains at Clover, SC. In 1894 the newspaper had noted
he is not pumping by hand now. Of late he has come to the conclusion that the work is getting too hard for his advancing years, and he has procured a windmill. Now he sits about, whittles out puzzles and other objects that his ingenuity enables him to fashion from wood, talks with his friends, and makes it certain that the wind mill properly discharges the duty that he has imposed upon it.
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Jacob W Amick
Private Jacob Wesley Amick, Company I, 15th South Carolina Infantry was one of at least ten Amicks who served in that Company. He was wounded at Sharpsburg but survived the war and was a farmer in Lexington County, SC for the rest of his life. This 1907-08 photograph of him was kindly contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Cynthia Amick.





