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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Brainard Carlisle

(1842 - 1924)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farm hand living with his parents and sister Elizabeth Ann on their farm at Rock Mills in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted at Roanoke, AL on 4 July 1861, and mustered as a Private in Company I, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and possibly at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 14 June 1865, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

After the War

By 1880 he was a farmer in Rusk County, TX, but by 1900 (and to at least 1920) was back in Alabama, farming at Roanoke in Randolph County.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

12/01/1842; Meriwether County, GA

Death

03/05/1924; Roanoke, AL; burial in Lebanon Christian Church Cemetery, Springfield, AL

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32390]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32391]

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