Isaac F.
Hurst was born in 1833 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina,. He was a son
of William “Billy” Hurst and Nancy Rivers. He had an older brother Phillip born
about 1830 in Chesterfield. His Mother, Nancy died in May 1860 from Flux. [1] [2]
Isaac
F. Hurst was recruited by Capt. James C. Craig for service in the Civil War. On
December 26, 1861, at Cheraw, SC, Isaac F. Hurst enlisted into Company “A”, 12th
Battalion SC Cavalry for 12 months.
He
was shown as present on Company Muster Rolls for Jan. 25, 1862 and in July-August
1862.
His
horse was valued at $150.00 and his equipment was valued at $25.00. Also in the
same unit was Phillip Hurst, age 20. At first I thought this was his brother Phillip;
but, it’s not, this is Phillip J. Hurst, son of Isaac Hurst and Henrietta
Rivers. Isaac F. and Phillip J. Hurst are first Cousins.
The
September-October 1862 Company Muster Rolls reported that Isaac F. Hurst died on 4 Oct 1862 at the age of 29. No reason
was given for his death.[3]
An
excellent book on the death of South Carolina Civil War personnel is Randolph W.
Kirkland; Jr. book entitled “Broken
Fortunes”.[4] A review of Broken Fortune shows Isaac F. Hurst name recorded on page 173. It further shows that Isaac F. Hurst died 10/04/1862
at Georgetown, South Carolina. Cause of death as DOD (died of disease). His sources
for this information were ROH, PP.[5]
The
following letter was also contained within the military files for Phillip Hurst.
After the War, Phillip married and
moved to Collin County, Texas.
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[1] 1850
U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule,
Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, page 173B, Line 28, Dwelling
1155, Family 1155, Household of William Hurst; digital images, Ancestry.com
(http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 15 March 2011); citing National Archives Microfilm M432 Roll 851.
[2] 1860 U.
S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, mortality schedule,
Chesterfield Dt., South Carolina, ID#: MRT573_1277, Nancy Hurst; digital
images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 15 September
2012); citing National Archives Microfilm M653_1217.
[3] Ancestry,
"Civil War Service Records" database, Military Service Records
(http://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 15 September 2012), entry for Isaac F. HURST,
Private; into Company “A”, 12th Battalion SC Cavalry; Confederate.
[4] Randolph
W. Kirkland Jr., Broken Fortunes: South Carolina Soldiers, Sailors and
Citizens Who Died in the Service of Their Country and State in the War for
Southern Independence, 1861-1865 (Columbia, South Carolina: University of
South Carolina, 1997), page 173.
[5] ROH) National Archive microfilm list of
South Carolina CSA dead, 1861-1865. This microfilm made from Professor Rivers’s
“Roll of Honor” which had been deposited in the National Archives in 1947 after
being discovered in the vaults of a bank in Charleston, SC. The original
document was returned to the S.C. Department of Archives and History in 1994. (Broken
Fortunes, page 398)
PP) Paths to the Past. Confederate death and
burial lists compiled in a number of bound pamphlets by the Lauderdale County
(Mississippi) Department of Archives and History. These are largely based on
the Watkins compilations, with added material derived from local research.
Copies in the collections of the South Carolina Historical Society. (Broken
Fortunes, page 398)
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