[917] lawyer in New York city. He joined this battery as a private and served as such with it until the close of the war, at the time of the surrender being at home on furlough. He participated in the following engagements: Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Wilderness and Spottsylvania. At the battle of Sharpsburg he was wounded in two places by the fragments of a shell, and remained in hospital about two weeks. After the war Mr. Wilder became a teacher and has been successful in his vocation. He was school commissioner of Sumter county four years, and in 1896 he was elected auditor of Sumter county, being re-elected in 1898. He was married in 1879 to Miss Sarah M. Roach, of Sumter, and they have five sons: Richard K., James G. R., Arthur H., R Eugene and Julien Diggs. Mr. Wilder is a member of Camp Dick Anderson, U. C. V., at Sumter.
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[917] lawyer in New York city. He joined this battery as a private and served as such with it until the close of the war, at the time of the surrender being at home on furlough. He participated in the following engagements: Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Wilderness and Spottsylvania. At the battle of Sharpsburg he was wounded in two places by the fragments of a shell, and remained in hospital about two weeks. After the war Mr. Wilder became a teacher and has been successful in his vocation. He was school commissioner of Sumter county four years, and in 1896 he was elected auditor of Sumter county, being re-elected in 1898. He was married in 1879 to Miss Sarah M. Roach, of Sumter, and they have five sons: Richard K., James G. R., Arthur H., R Eugene and Julien Diggs. Mr. Wilder is a member of Camp Dick Anderson, U. C. V., at Sumter.
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