John Calvin Freeman

An unmarried 20 year old farmer at Nixburg, AL, he enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry.

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

He was promoted to Corporal on 5 October and admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 10 October 1862, then home on wounded furlough into March 1863. He was wounded again, by a gunshot which shattered his left elbow at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was in a Richmond hospital by 10 May and to at least 13 June, when he was transferred to a hospital in Montgomery, AL. He was discharged for disability on 19 March 1864.

By 1880 he was a farmer in Brazos County, TX.

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 1850 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by Ernie Wentrcek.

He married Elizabeth Euphenia “Eliza” Martin (1847-1931) in November 1869 and they had 9 children.

His brothers George and James were also in Company C and wounded at Sharpsburg; George was killed at Gettysburg in July 1863 and James at Chancellorsville in May 1863. Brother William, also in Company C, died of disease in Richmond, VA in July 1862.

10/17/1841; Wetumpka, AL

02/28/1890; Wixon Valley, TX; burial in Wixon Cemetery, Wixon Valley, TX