John W. Hendrix

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker living with his parents and 3 younger siblings on their small farm at Bellville in Conecuh 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 with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was one of several soldiers who thought his was the rifle shot that killed Federal General John Reynolds at Gettysburg. He was captured there on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July to 18 September 1864, when he was exchanged. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 22 September and furloughed to Mobile, AL for 60 days on 1 October. There is no later military record.

In 1870 he was a farm worker at Evergreen in Conecuh County but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he was farming his own place at Monroeville, Monroe County, AL. By 1910 and to at least 1920, then 78 years old, he farmed at Jack Springs, Escambia County, AL.

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

He married Mary Ellender Harrison (1845-1928) in about 1866.

His wife's brother Benjamin Franklin Harrison was in Company H of the 13th Infantry. He died in March 1863 of wounds received at Gaines Mill, VA in June 1862.

06/07/1841 in AL

08/19/1922; Monroeville, AL; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Monroeville, AL