John Brannon Hall

In 1860 he was a 25 year old living with his parents, 4 siblings, and 3 slaves on their modest plantation at Tiller's Ferry in the Kershaw District, SC. He was conscripted, enrolled at Columbia, SC on 10 July 1862, and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right hip in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 25 November, transferred to GH #6 on 29 December, and to GH#1 on 9 February 1863. He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, for later exchange on 27 April and on to Fortress Monroe, VA on 30 April 1863. He was afterward listed as furloughed home and had not returned to his company by June 1864, the latest record in his military file.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Tillers Ferry/Buffalo Township, SC. In 1910, then age 74, he was retired and living with 4 grandchildren (ages 16, 14, 12 and 11) in Turkey Creek, Lee County, SC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details also from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1870, 1900 & 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Jane Penelope Watkins (1844-1910) and they had 4 children between 1861 and 1866; they adopted daughter Emma Alice (1892-before 1910).

09/21/1835 in SC

05/10/1910; in SC; burial in Sandy Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery, Bethune, SC