Jefferson Van Dyke Childress

He enlisted as Private, Company K, 3rd Alabama Infantry on 24 April 1861 in Mobile, AL. He was promoted to First Corporal by October 1861 and was appointed 2nd Sergeant, date not given.

He was listed as missing in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, but had been captured there.

He was held at Fort Delaware until 2 October 1862 when he was sent to Aikens Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond by 8 October and furloughed to Greensboro, AL for 30 days on 19 October. He was declared formally exchanged on 10 November 1862 but was absent on sick furlough to at least the end of 1862. He was back with his Company by March 1863 and was surrendered and paroled at Demopolis, AL on 10 June 1865.

He moved to Dallas, TX between 1875 and 1880, and was a farmer there.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His status on South Mountain from a casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862, as "Serg't Calldress." Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880.

He married Mary Elizabeth Moore (1849-1880) in April 1865 in Greene County, AL and they had 3 children.

c. 1838; Greene County, AL