John Holland Fryer

He was a 24 year old farmer on his father's place in Barbour County when he enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant, Company A, 5th Alabama Infantry on 15 May 1861 at Clayton, AL.

He was wounded and captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was paroled by October 1862. He was listed as missing and supposed captured at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He was wounded again, shot through his left lung at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and "left in hands of the enemy." He was held at Johnson's Island, OH to the end of the war.

He was living in Texas by 1870 and in 1880 he was a farmer in Freestone County, TX. He died there of pneumonia in 1881 at age 45.

His service from the State of Alabama.1 His wounding at Sharpsburg also in a casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph of unknown provenance, hosted by Calvin & Rosanna Hamilton.

He married Martha Elizabeth Daniel (1847-1925) in January 1869 and they had 5 children.

04/01/1836 in SC

04/30/1881; Freestone County, TX; burial in Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield, TX