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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

John Oliver Waddell

(1841 - 1913)

Home State: Georgia

Education: University of Georgia, Class of 1862

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Troup (GA) Artillery

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old student and lived with his older brother James, a lawyer in Polk County, GA. He enlisted in Athens, GA as a Private in the Troup Artillery on 24 April 1861. He was promoted to Sergeant on 20 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the face and neck in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 26 September, sent from Baltimore, MD to Fortress Monroe, VA on 11 October, and received at Aiken's Landing, VA on 12 October 1862 for exchange. He returned to duty and was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

On 4 June he transferred as First Lieutenant and Adjutant to the 20th Georgia Infantry. He was wounded twice more: on 19 September 1863 at Chickamauga, GA and on 6 May 1864 in the Wilderness, VA, where his leg was fractured and he was furloughed to Marietta for 60 days. He was back on duty by August and was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a prosperous farmer in Cedar Town (Cedartown), Polk County, GA. He was Georgia Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture, President of the Georgia State Agricultural Society, and Commander of the United Confederate Veterans in Georgia.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, and the Catalogue.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Eleanor Clifton Peek (1846-1919) in September 1863 and they had 9 children.

His brother James Daniel Waddell (1832-1881) was the original Captain of Company D, and later Colonel of the 20th Georgia Infantry (their Major at the time of the battle at Sharpsburg).

Birth

12/03/1841; Marietta, GA

Death

09/29/1913; Cedartown, GA; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Cedartown, GA

Notes

1   Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964  [AotW citation 26104]

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 30522]

3   University of Georgia, Board of Trustees, Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers, Alumni and Matriculates of the University of Georgia at Athens, Georgia, 1785-1906, Athens: E.D. Stone Press, 1906, p. 83  [AotW citation 30523]