John Jasper Haley

Going by Jasper, in 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 4 younger siblings in Orange County, NC. He enlisted at Fort Macon on 18 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 22 June.

He was with his company at Harpers Ferry and in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded in the hand at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 October 1863 and furloughed home, returning to duty on 3 January 1864. He was detailed on light duty afterward as brigade clerk and forage master. He was surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, NC on 18 May 1865.

In 1880 he was a farmer at Grainger in Shelby County, TN but by 1900 and to at least 1910 he farmed in Palmetto, Manatee County, FL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3 and J.A. Graham's Descriptive Book of the Orange Guards in his Papers,2 both as Jasper Haley. Thanks to Steve Peck for the nudge to look deeper into the Descriptive Book. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Elizabeth Woods (1848-1926) and they had at least 7 children between 1869 and 1887.

06/15/1843; Orange County, NC

11/09/1914; in FL; burial in Palmetto Cemetery, Palmetto, FL