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.

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.

Private Joseph W Amick, Company I, 15th South Carolina Infantry was born and raised in the area known as Dutch Fork between the Saluda and Broad Rivers in the Lexington District, SC. He was about 19 years old when he was killed in action on 14 September 1862 at Fox’s Gap on South Mountain. His photograph was posted online by the Sons of Confederate Veterans; provenance not given.

Columbia (SC) lawyer and US Senator’s son William Davie DeSaussure was a Captain of Volunteers in the Mexican War (1846-48), was wounded twice at Cherubusco, and came home a hero. He was in the South Carolina legislature, then took a commission as Captain in the First United States Cavalry in 1855. He served in the West but resigned in March 1861 as the war approached.

He was appointed Colonel of the 15th South Carolina Infantry and led it at Sharpsburg and to Gettysburg where he was killed on 2 July 1863.

His photograph is courtesy of Michael Williams, online in the Historical Data Systems database.

“Fate” Stevens was a Private in the 14th South Carolina Infantry who was wounded in combat near Harpers Ferry, VA on 13 September 1862. He survived that wound and the war to return home to his farm in the Edgefield District, but was killed, probably by accident, at age 49. The news clippings seen here have slightly different views of that incident; the Newberry Herald and News of 27 April 1892 on the right, the Winston-Salem Western Sentinel of 5 May on the left.