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J.G. Lightfoot
(1841 - 1923)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 12th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmworker living near Henderson's Store in Coffee County, AL. He enlisted on 9 June 1861 in Victoria, AL and mustered as a Private in Company D, 12th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by gunshot to the foot and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was probably treated at a field hospital on the battlefield, then briefly at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 12 and 13 October 1862, before being transferred to Baltimore, probably for exchange. He continued in service to the end of the war.
After the War
By 1880 and to at least 1920 he was a farmer near Rutledge in Crenshaw County, AL.
References & notes
His service from the Alabama Database.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 which has him as J.G. Lightford. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a portrait of unknown provenance shared on the Alabama Confederate Images Facebook page, probably done from a photograph; thanks to Greyson Beardsley for the pointer to that.
He married Salina W Crew (1844-1917) in January 1868 and they had 5 children.
Birth
06/02/1841; Pike County, AL
Death
04/01/1923; Rutledge, AL; burial in Lightfoot Cemetery, Rutledge, AL
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=119260; etc. [AotW citation 21242]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #986 [AotW citation 21243]