The State vs. the Dead Body of Andrew

Date: 
March 13, 1866

Deceased

Andrew
Description: 
freedman
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that by a pistol shot on th Pendleton Road . . . fired from a pistol in the hands of a United States Soldier

Coroner

Coroner: 
William E. Earle
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Greenville CH
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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Transcription: 

that he wore a blouse the time[?] was a Yankee

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