F M. Fry
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Private (date unknown).
"E" Co. SC Palmetto SharpShooters
Enlisted March 19, 1862 at Sumter, born Moore Co., NC, residence Clarendon District, SC, age 27 in July 1864
There are some 31 cards in his service record file which you can obtain through the service noted at the top of this page.
Palmetto Sharpshooters Regiment, South Carolina (Jenkins') (1st Palmetto)
Palmetto Regiment Sharpshooters was organized in April, 1862, with transfers from the 2nd, 5th, and 9th South Carolina Infantry Regiments. Send to Virginia, the unit was assigned to General R.H. Anderson's, Jenkins', and Bratton's Brigade. It fought with the army from Williamsburg to Fredericksburg, served at Suffolk and in North Carolina, then saw action at Chickamauga and Knoxville. Returning to Virginia, it continued the fight at The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, endured the hardships of the Petersburg trenches, and ended the war at Appomattox. It lost 9 killed and 74 wounded at Gaines' Mill and sixty-eight percent of the 375 engaged at Frayser's Farm. The regiment reported 2 casualties at South Mountain, 65 at Sharpsburg, 4 at Fredericksburg, and 44 at Wauhatchie. It surrendered 29 officers and 356 men. The field officers were Colonels Micah Jenkins and Joseph Walker; Lieutenant Colonel John W. Goss; and Majors William Anderson, William W. Humphreys, and Franklin W. Kilpatrick.
"5th South Carolina, The Struck Eagle, Micah Jenkins, the 5th South Carolina Volunteers, and the Palmetto Sharpshooters," by James A. Hoyt (issued 1886), then by John P. Thomas (issued 1908). Now by James J. Baldwin III. This book recounts the story of Micah Jenkins, his strongly pro-secession family, and his exploits and his successes in the Peninsula Campaign, at Seven Pines, where he was promoted to Brigadier General at Robert E. Lee's recommendation, and on to his days with James Longstreet. The work uses unpublished memoirs, journals, newspaper accounts and official war records to shed light on Confederate operations and especially on the history of Longstreet's First Confederate Corps. Complete roster of the Palmetto Sharpshooters. 490 page
See Unit History including list of battles and roster at:
http://www.researchonline.net/sccw/unit170.htm
Ooops, the roster seems to have been lost to the web
This fellow is listed as having knowledge of the unit:
Palmetto Sharpshooters of SC angus@camden.net (Joseph Matheson, Jr.)
This is the unit bibliography found at the U S Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa
USAMHI
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Palmetto South Carolina Sharpshooters
Baldwin, James J., III. The Struck Eagle: A Biography of Brigadier General Micah Jenkins, and a
History of the Fifth South Carolina Volunteers and the Palmetto Sharpshooters. Shippensburg, PA Burd Street Pr, 1996. 471 p. E467.1J4B35.
Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books,
1987. Ref. See pp. 270-71 (1 photocopied page) for a concise summary of the regiment's service.
Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 6: South Carolina. Wilmington, NC:
Broadfoot, 1987. 931 p. E484C65v6. Contains numerous, scattered references to South Carolina units.
Hoyt, James A. Palmetto Riflemen. Co. B, Fourth Regiment S.C. Vols. Co. C, Palmetto Sharp
Shooters. Historical Sketch. An Address Delivered by James A. Hoyt, a Member of the
Company, in the 21st of July, l885: Together With a Roll of the Company and Other
Information. Greenville, SC: Hoyt & Keys, 1886. 59 p. El73Pl8no281pam5.
McFall, William & James. Civil War Correspondence: Letters of...of the South Carolina Palmetto
Sharpshooters. [Ed by F. Lawrence McFall, Jr.] Danville, VA: By the Editor, 2000. 80 p. E577.5P34M33.
Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina.... NY: Facts on File,
1995. pp. 110-11 (2 photocopied pages). E577S53. (Unit organizational history).