John Karney

Age 30, he enlisted on 24 April 1861 at Vicksburg, MS and mustered as a Private in Company E, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 11 June 1861 in Union City, MS.

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

He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left side, and captured on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864. He was treated in a Federal 5th Corps field hospital and at US Army General Hospitals at City Point and Alexandria, VA and in Washington, DC. He was in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC by 26 October and sent on to the prison at Elmira, NY on 16 December 1864. He was transferred to James River, VA for exchange on 25 February 1865 and admitted to a hospital in Richmond on 4 March 1865 for a gunshot. He was paroled at Charlotte, NC on 27 May 1865.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as John Kearney. His wound at Sharpsburg on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

c. 1831