Jay McCondichie, Jr.

In 1860 he was a 25 year old farmer at Snow Hill, AL. He enlisted there on 29 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 44th Alabama Infantry.

He was slightly wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. Acting assistant Surgeon Tom Lee described it:

Jay struck with a piece of shell on hip, not hurt I am told — did not see him as all who were able to walk were sent over the river immediately to Sheppardtown and the next day to Winchester.

He was admitted to Chimborazo #1 on 4 October in Richmond, VA, transferred to the 3rd Alabama Hospital on 18 October, and furloughed home for 60 days on 22 October 1862. He returned to duty on 6 January 1863. He was absent, sick from October into January 1864 and was captured on 15 January at Mossy Creek, TN. He was held at Nashville, then at Louisville, KY to 15 February, and was sent on to the prison at Rock Island, IL. He took an oath of allegiance there on 17 June 1865 and was released.

In 1870 he was again a farmer in Snow Hill, but by 1880 was a school teacher there. In 1900 he was a landlord, but by 1910 was farming again.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. The quote above from a letter Lee wrote Dr William Gully in Wilcox County from Winchester, VA on 12 October 1862; transcribed online by Sharman Burson Ramsey. Personal details from family genealogists and US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Anna Herbert (1834-1859) and they had 2 children. He married again, Elizabeth Catharine Bradley (1843-1918), by April 1862, and they had 2 more.

03/17/1835; Furman, AL

01/03/1917; Furman, AL; burial in Palmer Cemetery, Furman, AL