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Notes for Seth Mercer
Seth Mercer enlisted in the 17th Alabama Infantry, Co. K on February 16, 1864 at Greenville. According to the regimental hospital record, he reported to the regimental hospital with acute diarrhea on June 21, 1864. His service record indicates he was hospitalized at West Point, Mississippi on January 12, 1865. This was after the battles of Nashville and Franklin. He was captured and paroled April 29, 1865. The 1907 Alabama Confederate Soldier Census confirms his birth on October 26, 1826 in Darlington District, South Carolina and his residence in Greenville as of 1907.
Wilbur Thompson. March, 2000.
(thompson@@hiwaay.net)
Rose Mercer said he (Seth's half-brother-in-law) was the son of Williams Fails and Mary Hamilton, a colored woman. He (Seth's half-brother-in-law) mentioned serving in the Confederate army with his brother-in-law (Seth) and working in a hospital with the surgeons. Other names who served with them were a Squire Hornbeck who had died the week before he was interviewed and an Irishman named Pat who played dead during every battle.
He said he and his brother-in-law had gone home on furlough when New Orleans was captured. He said he had another brother-in-law and a fellow servant on a steamboat that day and the Yankees fired into it. He said they leaped into the river and almost drowned, but were pulled out by two white men.
James Cummings. Seth Mercer, Jr. Half-Brother-In-Law Interview.
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