Van Crawford Coney

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer living with his parents and 8 siblings on the family plantation at Holmesville in Pike County, MS. He enlisted at Holmesville on 23 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 27 May 1861 in Corinth. He was promoted to 4th Corporal on 20 August, 3rd Corporal on 19 December, and 2nd Corporal by February 1862. He was elected 3rd Lieutenant at the Army reorganization of 26 April 1862.

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

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA and on furlough to 27 December 1862, then back with his Company. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 12 March 1863 and was captured on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864. He was briefly at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then sent on to Fort Delaware. He took an oath of allegiance there on 17 June 1865 and was released.

By 1870 he was a farmer at Magnolia in Pike County, MS.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1870, and his death notice in the Confederate Veteran2 of November 1901. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Pantha Roseline "Lena" Dickey (1849-1921) in about 1867 and they adopted a son Richie W. Dickey (1886-1895).

12/10/1840; Pike County, MS

06/26/1901; Pike County, MS; burial in Dickey Cemetery, Osyka, MS