John William Kornegay

In 1860 he was a married 24 year old farmer who owned a slave at Centreville, AL. He enlisted in Bibb County on 28 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 44th Alabama Infantry.

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

Like his brother Pratt, by December 1862 he was under charges of "cowardly conduct in battle," outcome not found. He was sent to a hospital in CHarlottesville, VA with chronic diarrhea on 10 February 1863, furloughed home on 30 March, and by July 1863 was listed as absent without leave; he did not return.

By 1880 he was a farmer at Jamesville in Bibb County, AL.

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. Personal details from family genealogists, notably in Bettie Jean Young Heathcock in Our Kornegay Family (1982), and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Fair (1840-) in January 1860 and they had 3 children. He married again, the widow (cousin?) Miriah Kornegay Bonds (husband William died at Vicksburg 1863; 1840-1923) in December 1871 and they had 6 more.

His brother Pratt was also in Company H and was wounded at Antietam.

07/06/1834; Scottsville, AL

04/26/1913; Tuscaloosa, AL; burial in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Centreville, AL