John Matthew Broome

In 1860 he was a 21 year old living with his parents, 7 younger siblings, and school teacher J.J. Kirkpatrick on the family farm at Utica in Hind County, MS. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 at Crystal Springs, MS and mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 18 July 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was ill in Virginia hospitals in April-May and June-August 1862.

He was wounded in the leg and shoulder in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was back with his Company by October 1862 but wounded again, by a gunshot to his little finger at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. His finger was amputated and he was in hospitals in Richmond and Charlottesville, VA to at least 3 June 1863, with no later military record.

By 1870 he was back at Utica, MS and farmed his own place there to at least 1880.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wounds from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as J.W. Broome. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha J "Mattie" Wooley (1844-1931) in September 1859 and they had 6 children between 1867 and 1879.

His brothers Alonzo and Cyrus were also wounded at Sharpsburg.

06/16/1838; Utica, MS

05/12/1895; Utica, MS; burial in Utica Cemetery, Utica, MS