John Paulding Hallman

An unmarried 16 year old farmer from Greenville, Butler County, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

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

He was admitted in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 30 September and returned to duty on 2 December. He was promoted to 4th Corporal on 1 February 1863 and again in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May. He was wounded again, by a gunshot through his thigh at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July and was back with his company by November 1863.

He was captured at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864, a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD by 17 May, then sent to Elmira, NY on 27 July. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 23 June 1865 and was released.

He'd taken his family west to the Indian Territory (later Oklahoma) by 1881, and may later have lived in Mississippi. In 1900 he was farming in Sevier County, AR and in 1920 he was a 74 year old teacher living with his daughter Lena and her family in Tulsa, OK.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Archives,2 as John P. Holman. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1900 & 1920.

He married Joselina A Presley (1851-1899) in November 1869 in Muscogee County, GA and they had 6 children.

12/1845 in GA

11/09/1921; Tulsa, OK; burial in Rose Hill Memorial Park, Tulsa, OK