John J. Stacey

He enlisted at Anderson in Grimes County as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 March 1862 and reported to his regiment on 11 May.

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September. At Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, after Color Corporal William A. Parker was hit, Captain Darden of Company A retrieved the regiment's battle flag and gave to Private Stacey, who carried it for the rest of the battle.

He was wounded by a gunshot in the arm at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and "left in the hands of the enemy" - captured at Cashtown on 5 July. He was treated at the US Army General Hospital in Chester, PA to 13 January 1864, sent to the McClellan Hospital in Philadelphia, then on to the Broad & Pine hospital there on 28 January. He was then a prisoner at Fort Delaware until 14 September 1864, when he was paroled and sent South. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 21 September. He was medically retired to the Invalid Corps on 30 November 1864 and was detailed as a guard at Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond on 8 December with no later military record.

His service from Davis,1 as Jno. J Stacy, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave, as "3d Corp." There's no mention that he was ever promoted to Corporal in his service jacket.

10/15/1842

06/19/1918; burial in Bryan City Cemetery, Bryan, TX