John J. Haggerty

He was a laborer in England, and arrived in New York from Liverpool in 1846. By 1861 he was living in Texas and enlisted in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County on 11 July 1861. He was ill and finally joined his Regiment in Northern Virginia in May 1862. He was assigned as scout and courier to General Hood on 1 September.

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was present, but sick, at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. From General Hood's Report:

I would be wrong in not acknowledging the valuable services rendered during the several engagements, in transmitting orders, of the following couriers of this command: M. M. Templeman, T. W. C. Lake, J.P. Mahoney, James Malone, W. E. Duncan, J. A. Mann, W. J. Barbee, W. G. Jesse, J. I. Haggerty, and J. H. Drake.

He continued as a courier for General Hood and was captured on 2 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA, and held for four months at Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia. He was then charged as a spy, and sent to Fort Delaware on 17 November. He apparently escaped, probably in 1864, and returned to his unit on 24 July 1864 with no later military record.

His service from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from a bio sketch by Thomas J. Ryan published in the Coastal Point newspaper of 17 June 2016. His picture from a photograph with his wife Mary Jane in the collection of the Witte Museum in San Antonio, TX; thanks to Greyson Beardsley for the pointer to that.

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