Alfred F. Johnson

Enlisted as a Private
"C" Co. SC Chesterfield Light Artillery

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- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records

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Chesterfield SC Light Artillery Batty
Organized: on 11/1/61
Mustered Out: 4/26/65
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Kelly's Battery - Chesterfield Light Artillery, S. C.
Capt. James I. Kelly's Co., formerly James C. Coits,

Kelly, James I, 2nd/1st Lt., Capt.

Record of Events

Captain James C. Coints, Lt. Artillery, South Carolina Volunteers, accepted into the service of the PACS, October 11, 1861 at Camp Butler, for and during the war

Nov. & Dec., 1861 stationed at Pig Point, Va.
Station changed Nov. 15, 1861 from Florence, S. C. to Pig Point, Va.

Jany. & Feby., 1862, stationed at Pig Point, Va.

May & June, 1862, stationed at Ft. Clifton, Va.
Marched from Norfolk to Petersburg, Va. May 10, 1862

July & Aug., 1862, stationed at Fort Clifton

Sept. & Oct., 1862, stationed at Fort Clifton, Va.

July & Aug., 1863, stationed near Petersburg, Va.
One Mare & Colt turned over temporarily by order of Maj. Jas R. Branch, Chf. Arty.

Sept. & Oct., 1863, stationed at Camp Hood

Nov. & Dec., 1863, stationed at Camp Hood near Drewrys Bluff, Va.

Jan, & Feb., 1864, stationed at Camp Whiting near Kinston,
N. C.

Mch. & April, 1864, stationed near Kinston, N. C.

May & June, 1864, stationed near Kinston, N. C.
One Deserter reported on last roll dropped. Two men transferred to Gunboat Neuse reported on last Roll are dropped from this

July & Aug., 1864, stationed near Kinston, N. C.

Sept. & Oct. , 1864, stationed near Kinston, N. C.
One Lieut. & forty enlisted men Detached to man 2 Guns in the trences [sic] at Petersburg, Va.

Nov. & Dec., 1864, stationed at Kinston, N. C.
1 2d Lieut & 39 Enlisted men detached to man 2 guns in the trenches at Petersburg One private viz Alfred Jackson executed for desertion 9 Nov 1864

Jan & Feb., 1865, stationed near Kinston, N. C.
One 1st Lieut. & 25 Enlisted men on Detached service at Golsboro, N. C.
One 2nd Lieut. & 36 Enlisted men on Detached service at Petersburg, Va.
Two enlisted men Prisoners of War in the hands of the enemy.

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Alfred F. Johnson, age 23, Private, James C. Coit's Company (Light Artillery), South Carolina Volunteers,* joined for duty an enrolled August 25, 1861 at Chesterfield/Cheraw, S. C., recorded at the end of year as sick at General Hospital, Portsmouth, Va., present at the Jan/Feb, 1862 muster, recorded on the Jul/Aug, 1863 muster roll as absent with the section at Weldon, N. C., recorded present at the end of year muster, recorded April 1, 1864 as absent, on furlough of indulgence,** recorded present on the Mar/Apr, 1864 muster, paroled at Greensboro, N. C., May 1, 1865

* This company subsequently became Captain Kelly's Company, Light Artillery, South Carolina Volunteers. It appears to have served for a time in Moseley's Battalion of Artillery. This battalion was composed of companies from various States that afterward served as independent commands

M267: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of South Carolina

** Here is what one fellow commented on the term "I can however tell you that a 'furlough of indulgence' simply means that he was give a period of time off, probably to go home. Sometimes it was granted because the soldier was sick, other times because he signed a re-enlistment."

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