Birth: Dec. 23, 1830.
Death: Jun. 27, 1886.
Parents: Michael Leaphart (1795 - 1876), Susan Leaphart (1805 - 1876).
Siblings: Godfrey Leaphart (1825 - 1891), Sherob Luther Leaphart (1830 - 1886), Caroline Leaphart Earle (1833 - 1915).
Burial: Saint Andrews Lutheran Church Cemetery, Columbia, Lexington County, South Carolina.
Second South Carolina Infantry.
Company A., " Governor's Guards."
Leaphart, S. L., elected Captain, at the Reorganization, May 13, 1862; wounded at Sharpsburg, September 17, 1862; reported on muster rolls of November 1, 1862, and January 1, and February 28, 1863, as absent, wounded; reported on muster roll of June 30, 1863, as present; wounded at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863*; reported on muster rolls of August 31, and November 1, 1863, and February 29, 1864, as in the hands of the enemy; reported on muster rolls of April 30, and June 30 (the last roll available), 1864, as a prisoner at Johnson's Island, Ohio, since Gettysburg.
* The unofficial compilation says he lost a leg.
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