Ron:

Calvin S. Stephens initially enlisted in Co K of the PSS on 19 Mar 1862, at the age of 40. He was, as you indicated, wounded at Frazier's (or Frayser's) Farm on 30 Jun 1862. He transferred from K/Palmetto Sharpshooters to C/Hamptn LKegion Infantry in May 1863, and is shown as present until the Sep-Oct 63 roill, when he is carried as a patient in the Ladies Hospital, Columbia. That hospital was located, I understand, near the depot of the Coplumbia and Charlotte Railroad which was located very near the crossing of the railroad on Gervais Street. That roll was not prepared until about 15 Feb 1864, and probably reflects his status at that time, not at the end of October 1863.

He disappears from the records of the Legion at that time, but the muster rolls of the Legion from the Nov-Dec 63 roll through the Jul-Aug 64 rolls are missing. He does not appear on the last two existant rolls of the Legion, for Sep-Oct 64, and Nov-Dec 64, and he was probably dicharged for disability sometime during that spring or summer. Why he transferred from his company in the Sharpshooters, which was raised from Spartanburg District, his home, to a company which was raised from Clarendon and Sumter Districts, is not determined. I suspect that he had relatives in Company C, or otherwise had some connection to the area in which it was raised. He married Maryann Frances [maiden name unknown] on 2 Feb 1857; she was almost fifteen years his junior. This information comes from her pension application under the 1919 law. Spartanburg County Copnfederate Pension Applications, S. C. Department of Archives and History. According to his tombstone at Philadephia Baptist Church, at Pauline in Spartanburg County, he was born on 5 Mar 1821, and died on 3 November 1890.

I would ask that you contact me directly at Sturkey@wctel.net. I would like to pick your brain on this man who served in the Hampton Legion in addition to the PSS.

Incidentally, while Jenkins' South Carolina Brigade was present on the Confederate right on the afternoon of September 17, it acted primarily in support of Robert Toombs' Georgians, who bore the brunt of the fighting on that afternoon above the bridge, until the arrival of A. P. Hill's division late in the afternoon, which turned back the last Federal assault. Comparatively speaking, Jenkins' casualties were light that day.