John C. Turner

Age 23, he enlisted as a Private in Company C, 4th North Carolina Infantry on 7 June 1861 in Statesville.

He was captured at Boonesboro, MD on 15 September 1862 - the day following the regiment's fight at Fox's Gap on South Mountain.

He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware by about 15 September, paroled and sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange on 2 October, and declared exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and back to duty by September, when he was promoted to Corporal. He was treated for a gunshot wound to his left foot in a Richmond, VA hospital in May 1864. He was appointed First Sergeant on 1 September 1864 and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of his Company on 19 September 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1880 he was a farmer in Bethany Township in Iredell County, NC. In 1900 he was a grocer in Statesville with son Orin and (cousin?) Zepheniah. He had retired and was living with his daughter Mary in Statesville in 1910.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 via fold3 and the Roster.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Jane Tuck (1839-1888) and they had 5 children between 1865 and 1878. He married again, Mary Secelia Griffith (1845-1907) in October 1889.

There were at least 10 young Turners in the 4th North Carolina Infantry.

02/26/1838 in NC

03/26/1917; in NC; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Statesville,NC