SC 19th Infantry Regiment Company D

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This roll was prepared by Captain J. W. Denny, (who was the last Captain commanding,) in 1882. I do not copy it verbatim as I find it in the Adjutant General’s office, but take the liberty of making corrections where I know there are errors.

Ira Cromley, age 38, Captain, discharged at Corinth, Miss., over age.

William Spencer Peterson, Captain, killed in battle at Atlanta, Ga., July 28th, 1864, elected Captain May, 1862.

John W. Denny, age 30, Captain, promoted from Sergeant to First Lieutenant May, 1862, Captain July 28th, 1864.

John A. Crowder, age 29, First Lieutenant, died of wounds January, 1863, wounded at Murfreesboro, promoted Major May, 1862.

Elzey B. Forrest, age 37, Second Lieutenant, discharged at Corinth, Miss., over age.

Isaac Edwards, age 38, Second Lieutenant, discharged at Corinth, Miss., over age.

Basil Peterson, age 29, Second Lieutenant, promoted from Sergeant August, 1864.

James H. Lagrone, age 20, promoted from ranks to Sergeant in 1864, to Second Lieutenant in 1865.

Henry E. Vansant, age 22, First Lieutenant, promoted from ranks to Second Lieutenant May, 1862, to First Lieutenant in 1864.

Theophilus Wright, age 34, Sergeant.

Samuel T. Edwards, age 27, Sergeant, wounded at Atlanta, Ga., July 28th, 1864.

J. D. Smith Livingston, age 23, Sergeant, wounded at Atlanta, Ga., July 28th, 1864.

Thomas E. Chapman, age 32, Sergeant, died at home August, 1864, of wound received at Atlanta July 28th, 1864, promoted Sergeant May, 1862.

William G. Matthews, age 27, promoted Sergeant September, 1863.

John C. Wheeler, age 25, ensign killed in battle in Atlanta, Ga., July 28th, 1864, promoted from ranks 1862.

Rowland Eidson, age 26, Corporal, killed in battle at Atlanta, Ga., July 22nd, 1864.

Levi M. Crouch, age 25, Corporal, died of disease in Kentucky 1862.

James M. Abney, age 33, Corporal, wounded at Atlanta July 28th, 1864.

John D. Eidson, age 15, Corporal, discharged at Shelbyville, Tenn., January, 1863.

William E. Reese, age 31, Corporal, promoted from ranks 1864.

Amos W. Satcher, age 20, Corporal, promoted from ranks May, 1862.

PRIVATES.

John P. Abney, age 25, killed Columbia, S. C., January, 1865;

James C. Abney, age 20;

Ezra Abney, age 23;

D. Sumter Adams, age 30, died of disease at Charleston, S. C.;

Wesley A. Black, age 19, killed in battle Nashville, Tenn., December, 1864, wounded at Atlanta, Ga., July 26th, 1864;

Henry S. Black, age 17;

William H. Banks, age 16, discharged at Shelbyville, Tenn., January, 1863;

John D. Bruce, age 19, died of disease at Enterprise, Miss., May, 1862;

John A. Chapman, age 41, Newberry, wounded near New Hope Church, Ga., May 30th, 1864;

Charles Carson, age 16, discharged at Shelbyville, Tenn., January, 1863;

Zedekiah Crouch, age 16, discharged at Shelbyville, Tenn., January 1863;

Larkin Crouch, age 33;

Jacob Crouch, age 30, killed in battle at Atlanta, July 22nd, 1864;

James B. Crouch, age 18;

James R. Crouch, age 19;

Sion Corley, age 16, discharged at Shelbyville, Tenn., January, 1863;

William Corley, age 31;

Arthur W. Davis, age 24, killed in battle at Bentonville, N. C., 1865. Watkins lists his date of death as 24 MAY, 1865, but Broken Fortunes, lists the date of death as 19 MAR 1865, coinciding with the battle of Bentonville, NC.

John Davis, age 22; Pinchney D. Denny, age 16, died of disease at Enterprise, Miss., May, 1862;

Pickens Dean, age 37;

Julius Eason, age 22, killed in battle at New Hope Church, Ga., May, 1864;

John D. Eidson;

William Gentry, age 28, killed in battle at Franklin, Tenn., December, 1864;

Lewis C. Goff, age 23;

William C. Goff, age 21;

Jonathan N. Gregory, age 20;

Daniel Havird, age 22, died of disease at Charleston, S. C., January, 1862;

Franklin J. Havird, age 20, died of disease at Charleston, S. C., January, 1862;

Israel P. Hartzoge, age 27, killed in battle Chickamauga, Tenn., September 20th, 1863;

----- Holden, age 18, Chester, killed in battle at Franklin, Tenn.;

Jesse Jay, age 30;

Irvin G. Jones, age 32, killed in battle at Nashville, Tenn., December, 1864;

Henry P. Jones, age 34;

Brown Jennings, age 32, wounded at Chickamauga, Tenn., September 20th, 1863;

Philip Jennings, age 35;

----- Langston, age 20, Sumter, lost;

George Little, age 25, killed in battle at Chickamauga, Tenn., September 20th, 1863;

Wm. McCarty, age 28; Isaac McCarty, age 26, discharged Charleston, S. C., December, 1861;

John Mannel, age 30, Chester, killed in battle at Atlanta, Ga., July 22nd, 1864;

Simeon Morse, age 26, wounded - thumb - near New Hope, Ga., May, 1864;

George W. Matthews, age 25;

William Matthews, age 18;

Sulton J. Mills, age 40;

Jake Nelson, age 16; Union;

Moses New, age 24, wounded at Murfreesboro, Tenn., January, 1863;

Edward G. New, age 29;

Jackson J. Odom, age 40;

Lawson Padgett, age 16;

Samuel Padgett, age 31, died of disease at Atlanta, Ga.;

Armstead Parish, age 28, died of disease in Mississippi;

Wesley Parish, age 23;

Cornelius E. Rowe, age 31;

John Rushton, age 20, captured at Missionary Ridge November, 1863;

Wm. M. Raborn, age 33, died of wounds January, 1863, wounded December 31st, 1862, at Murfreesboro, Tenn.;

Josiah Dodgen, age 27, died of disease at Chatanooga 1863;

Lemuel Salter, age 37;

John C. Salter, age 31, killed in battle at Franklin, Tenn.;

William Salter, age 29, killed in battle at Franklin, Tenn.;

L. Gideon Salter, age 24;

Geo. A. Schumpert, age 18, killed in battle at Chickamauga September 20th, 1863;

James Speer, age 32;

Jasper Story, age 33;

A. M. Smith, age 40, Fairfield;

James Vines, age 25;

William A. Watson, age 23, killed in battle at Murfreesboro, Tenn., December 31st, 1862;

Milledge Watson, age 20, discharged at Charleston January, 1862;

Patrick Wages, age 20, died of disease at Charleston January, 1862;

Eldred J. Wills, age 32;

H. Lafayette Winn, age 16, discharged at Shelbyville, Tenn., January, 1863;

John W. Whittle, age 31, died of disease at Chattanooga 1863;

Henry A. Williams, age 18;

Burr J. Yarbrough, age 16, died of disease on retreat from Corinth, Miss.

Commissioned officers, 9; non-commissioned officers, 12; privates, 73; total, 94. Killed in battle, 16; died of wounds received in battle, 3; died of disease, 12; total deaths, 31. Discharged, 9; captured, 1; lost, 1.

The number mortally wounded is small, but the whole loss is about the average. Deducting the number discharged the loss of the remainder is a little over one-third.

In the roll on file in the Adjutant General’s office John A. Chapman is entered as having been wounded at Atlanta in August, 1864; but in point of fact, as Judge O’Neall used to express it, he was wounded about two o’clock at night, on the night of Sunday, May 29th, 1864. Being after midnight would make it May 30th. Captain Robert N. Chatham, commanding Company "G," who was killed by the same ball, is entered on the roll of his company as having been killed by accident near New Hope, in June, 1864. This entry is only a few days wrong. Whether he was killed by accident, or by the discharge of an enemy’s gun, can never be known with certainty. Occasional firing was going on all that night, and, in fact, nearly all the time, day and night, for we were nearly always in the presence of the enemy. We were lying, at the time Captain Chatham was fatally wounded, in line of battle. I was in the rear rank lying upon my left side with my right leg a little drawn up, so that the foot rested upon the left just above the ankle. Captain Chatham, a little in the rear of the rear rank, was lying upon his right side within a few feet of me. I was about half asleep when suddenly a gun fired, which seemed to be very near. The ball passed through my right leg about an inch above the ankle, tearing out the smaller bone without touching the larger, and struck Captain Chatham in the stomach and lodged in his body. We were both carried together to a little house not far away. On the afternoon of Monday, May 30th, I was lifted into a wagon and transported to Marietta over the roughest road, it seemed to me then, that ever wagon travelled over. Captain Chatham was alive when I left him, but he died that afternoon, as I was told afterwards. He was an amiable and good man, a brave and good officer, and loved by his men. I saw Colonel Shaw at Newberry in 1867, and talking about the events of that night, he said he had come to the conclusion, and the general conclusion was, that the gun was fired by the enemy. I thought at the time that, being so near, it must have been the accidental discharge of one of our own guns, but the ball passed diagonally across our line, so that the man who fired the gun must have been in our front, though near.

On the last day of May I was lodged in hospital at Atlanta, where I remained all through that rainy month of June, 1864. Early in July, as Sherman began to draw near, the hospital was moved to Forsyth, Ga. There I remained until August 10th, when I was furloughed for sixty days. I arrived at home safely August 13th, 1864, - found all well, and never saw the army any more, except some of General Cheatham’s at Newberry and some of Stewart’s, a few miles below Chappells, in Edgefield. My fighting days were over. Very often during those four years I thought it a little strange and singular that men could not find something better to do than to make it a regular daily business to try to kill one another. However, I suppose it is all right. Fighting great battles and gaining great victories is glory; shooting and killing birds is sport.

REF: Chapman: History of Edgefield County - pg. 453

REF: Confederate Deaths and Burials in the High Point North Carolina Hospital compiled by Raymond Wesley Watkins, - 6119 Beachwar Dr. - Falls Church, VA 22041, 1 DEC 1978 - unpublished typed manuscript. FHC Fiche # 6047135.

REF: Chapman: History of Edgefield County - pg. 469
Rivers: Rivers Account of the Raising of the Troops

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