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Dead of Co. C/7 S.C.V.

From the Abbeville Press, 31 Aug 1866, p. 2, c. 4, is the following:

"LIST OF THE LOST OF COMPANY C, 7TH S. C. REGIMENT, KERSHAW'S BRIGADE, DURING THE LATE WAR.

Joseph J. Link, died August 10, 1861, Vienna, Va., aged 24 years -- measles
Wm. Cook, August 14, 1861, Richmond, Va., aged 25 -- measles
John W. Bosworth, August 23, 1861, Culpepper [sic] C. H., Va., aged 19 -- typhoid fever
W. F. Edmunds, NOv. 14, 1861, Charlottesville, Va., aged 17 -- typhoid fever
Robert Newton Lynn, Nov. 28, 1861, Manchester, Va., aged 21 -- typhoid fever
J. Newton Rogers, Nov. 28, 1861, Orange C. H., Va., aged 23 -- typhoid fever
J. N. LeRoy, Dec. 5, 1861, Manchester, Va., aged 36 -- typhoid fever
Wm. H. McCelvey, March 10, 1862, Charlottesville, Va., aged 22 -- typhoid fever
Willard Walker, Corporal, May 9, 1862, Richmond, Va., aged 33 -- diarrhoea
Geo. W. Martin, May 12, 1862, Charlottesville, Va., aged 18 -- typhoid pneummonia
Jebez P. Robinson, Sergeant, June 29, 1862, Savage Station, Va., aged 22 -- killed in battle
Samuel Knox, July 2, 1862, Malvern Hill, Va., aged 24 -- killed in battle
Jas. Willis, Sergeant, July 2, 1862, Malvern Hill, Va., age 21 -- killed in battle
John W. Hill, September 13, 1862, Maryland Heights, age 21 -- killed in battle
Wm. Land, September 13, 1862, Maryland Heights, aged 28 -- kmilled in battle
Jas. M. Kennedy, September 17, 1862, Sharpsburg, Md, aged 19 -- killed in battle
Thomas M. Childs, Adjutant, September 17, 1862, Sharpsburg, Md., aged 24 -- killed in battle. Thos.

M. Childs was promtoedc to Adjutant May 10, 1862
John New, Dec. 13, 1862, Fredericksburg, Va., aged 22 -- killed in battle
John L. Wilson, Dec. 13, 1862, Fredericksburg, Va., aged 25 -- killed in battle
John A. McQuerns, October 1, 1862, Msryland Heights, aged 31 -- wounds in battle
Vincent Carrol, [sic Carroll] October 1, 1862, Gordonsville, Va., aged 21 -- pneumonia
Wm. Baker, October 1, 1862, at home, aged 24 -- measles
W. T. Link, October 1, 1862, at home, aged 23 -- typhoid fever
James A. Pennal, January 17, 1862, at home, aged 21 [no cause specified]
W. O'Neal Palmer, January 17, 1863, Richmond, Va., aged 20 -- pneumonia
John A. Bellol, February 19, 1863, Gordonsville, Va., aged 32 -- pneumonia
Wm. Bradley, May 20, 1863, Richmond, Va., aged 20 -- wounds at Chancellorsville. Wm. Bradley was transferred to Company G, 14th S. C. Regiment, in 1862
A. Thos. Traylor, Lieutenant, July 8, 1863, Cashtown, Pa., aged 25 -- wounds at Gettysburg
Peter D. Guillebeau, Jun 17, 1863, Gordonsville, Va., aged 24 -- pneumonia
Robert McClain, September 24, 1863, Chattanooga, Tenn., aged 21 -- killed in skirmish
John I. Adamson, May 8, 1863, Hanover Junction, Va., aged 22 -- disease
Thos. W. Wiullis, Corporal, July 2, 1863, Gettysburg, Pa., aged 24 -- killed in battle
JOhn C. Martin, September 17, 1863, Petersburg, Va., aged 25 -- diarrhoea
Thos. J. Edmunds, November 14, 1863, Petersburg, Va., aged 19 -- diarrhoea
W. T. Barksdale, May 6, 1864, Wilderness, aged 21 -- killed in battle
Joseph P. Willis, May 6, 1864, Wilderness, aged 18 -- killed in battle
Thos. W. Barksdale, June 4, 1864, Coal Harbor, Va., aged 24 -- killed in battle
Thos. C. Bradley, Corporal, JUne 12, 1864, Trevillian's, aged 23 -- killed in battle. Thos. C. Bradley discharged May 1862, and joined Company C, 6th S. C. Regiment Cavalry
D. R. Zimmerman, April 11, 1864, Northernprison, age 30. D. R. Zimmerman was from Spartanburg District, S. C.
S. F. Edmunds, 1st Sergeant, October 19, 1864, Cedar Creek, aged 22 -- killed in battle"

Note: This comapny was raised in Abbeville District, primarily from the section near Long Cane and Cedar Springs ARP Churches, near present day Troy and Bradley, respectively, and from the Mt. Carmel-Willington area of what is now McCormick Ounty.