John Henry Etheredge

A 20 year old farmer in Richardsonville, Edgefield District, he enlisted as Private, Company E, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861. He was assigned as a musician to the regimental band in August 1861.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded by a gunshot in April 1864, place not given, and in hospitals in Charlottesville and Lynchburg, VA. He was wounded yet again, by a gunshot to his face at Cold Harbor, VA on 3 June 1864, and was treated at a hospital in Richmond into August. He was surrendered on 26 April 1865 and paroled at Greensboro, NC on 2 May 1865.

By 1880 he was a farmer at Coleman, Edgefield County. In 1900 he was a salesman in Saluda.

His service from Swain.1 Personal details from family genealogists - at least one of whom has his birth in March 1841 - and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Barbara A. Jennings (1844-1911) about 1867 and they had 9 children.

03/03/1840

02/12/1917; Saluda, SC; burial in Travis Park Cemetery, Saluda, SC