John Franklin Moore

In 1860 he was a 28 year old farmer at West Point in Troup County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 13th Georgia Infantry on 21 August 1862 in LaGrange, GA.

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

He was on wounded furlough from 5 October 1862 to 12 February 1863. He was captured at Danville, VA on 6 April 1865 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until released on 29 June 1865.

In 1870 he was a farm worker back at West Point, but by 1880 and to at least 1900 farmed his own place in Chambers County, AL.

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

He married Mary Elizabeth Hodnett (1834-1883) in August 1852 and they had 11 children. He married again, Mary Albenie "Bennie" Sorrell (1851-1913) in May 1884.

At least 5 of Mary Elizabeth's brothers served in Company K during the war, including John Wesley Hodnett, who died of smallpox shortly after Sharpsburg.

c. 1829 in GA

02/20/1905; burial in Pleasant Grove Congregational Christian Church, Chambers County, AL