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(1838 - 1922)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 22 year old farmer on his father's place at San Marcos in Hays County, TX, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in hospitals in Richmond from 29 September to 8 November 1862, when he was granted a 60 day furlough. He's on the Company rolls as absent on furlough to 3 May 1863, and afterward absent without leave in San Marcos, TX. He was paroled on 12 August 1865 in San Antonio, TX.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he farmed his own place in San Marcos. In 1900 he was an agent selling washing machines there. He had retired at 903 Fort St in town by 1910 and was still there (renamed West Hopkins St) in 1920.
References & notes
Service information from Davis,1 as John F. McGee, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Elizabeth Davis (1842-1921) in Guadalupe County in April 1863 and they had 9 children, 7 daughters and 2 sons; the first born was named John Hood McGehee (1864-1945).
More on the Web
The home he built at 832 Belvin Street in San Marcos is still in existence (2021) and has a Texas Historical Commission marker which states, in part:
Built in 1889 by John Francis McGehee (1830-1922). A. veteran of Hood's Brigade in Civil War. The house, constructed of pine hauled from Bastrop, cypress siding, and handmade brick, is of 19th century Eastlake architectural style ...He was no longer living in that house by the 1910 US Census.
Birth
10/01/1838; Bastrop, TX
Death
04/11/1922; in TX; burial in San Marcos Cemetery, San Marcos, TX
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1682]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26619]