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Percival Ravenel Porcher

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Name^[1]	Percival Ravenel Porcher
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	17 Jul 1829	Berkeley, South Carolina, United States
Marriage		to Maria Catherine Ravenel
Military^[2]		Civil war - Co K, South Carolina 4th Cavalry Regiment (The Charleston Light Dragoons)
Death^[1]	2 Jun 1864	Richmond City, Virginia, United Statesdied during the war, fatally shot at Hawe's Shop

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Ravenel, Henry Edmund. Ravenel records: A history and genealogy of the Huguenot family of Ravenel, of South Carolina; with some incidental account of the parish of St. Johns Berkeley, which was their principal location. The book is intended for private distribution. (Atlanta, Georgia: Franklin Print and Publishing Company, 1898)
166, 180.
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South Carolina 4th Cavalry Regiment Company K The Charleston Light Dragoons.

Porcher, Purcival R.
Wounded at the battle of Hawes Shop, VA 28 MAY 1864. Died 2 JUN 1864 of wounds.
"It was necessary to pass across an open piece of ground to reach the place to which they had been ordered. As they were doing this in single file, the attention of the enemy's sharp-shooters was attracted, and by their fire Percival Porcher was mortally wounded, and Tim O'Brien seriously hurt."
REF: The Charleston Light Dragoons - pg. 42.
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Percival Ravenel Porcher
Wounded in battle of Haws Shop, Virginia
Died in Richmond, Virginia hospital
Info. from Mrs. James J. Ravenel (Martha M. Porcher)