There’s only one carded record in his Compiled Service Record jacket for Aaron Harris, identified as a Waiter in the 3rd South Carolina Infantry. This is from a Federal hospital record. There are no Confederate military records for him as soldier.
Given the lack of enlistment or other muster information, and that “waiter” is not a military rank, it occurs to me that this man may have been a slave who accompanied the regiment into Maryland and was serving as a camp servant to Company A.
Obviously, that’s not the only possible explanation here.
Who ever he was, he was left, sick in Frederick on or before 12 September, captured, and cared for there by Federal doctors until 19 September 1862, when this brief story ends.
Notes
Thanks to the Confederates in Frederick database from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine for the pointer to Harris. Unfortunately, I have found nothing else to help me better identify him.
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