John Henry Hamby

In 1860 he was an 18 year old factory operative living with his widowed mother and 2 younger brothers at Tallassee, Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded by a gunshot which fractured his skull at Mechanicsville, VA on 27 June 1862 but he was back on duty by August.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and but was listed as absent without leave at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He returned to duty by February 1863 and was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was furloughed home on 27 July but was back in time to fight in the Wilderness and at Spotsylvania, VA in May 1864. He was captured at Hanover Junction on the North Anna River, VA on 24 May and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD by 30 May. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 5 June 1865 and was released.

In 1870 he was working in a cotton mill at Prattville in Autaugua County, AL but by 1900 was farming at Oak Ridge in Morehouse Parish, LA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1870, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elmira Jones (1840-) in February 1870 and they had a son John. He married again, Annie Jane Kennedy (1874-1966), 31 years his junior, about 1897 and they had 3 children.

05/12/1843 in GA

08/24/1915; Morehouse Parish, LA; burial in Oak Ridge Baptist Cemetery, Oak Ridge, LA