John Lamar Lemmond

In 1860 he was a 26 year old farmer with a small place at Milltown in Chambers County, AL. He enlisted on 22 February 1862 in Roanoke, AL and mustered as a Private in Company I 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 captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware by 6 July 1863. He was exchanged, date not given, and admitted to a Williamsburg, VA hospital on 20 August and furloughed on 4 September 1863. He was wounded at the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He was captured at Burkesville, VA on 6 April 1865 and held at Point Lookout, MD until he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released on 14 June 1865.

By 1880 he was a farmer at Ashland in Clay County, AL. He went to Texas about 1901 and was a farmer at Farmer in Young County, TX by 1906. He retired on his farm there by 1910.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, also as John Lemons and Lemmonds, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1910, and his 1919 Texas Confederate pension application (denied because he hadn't lived in Texas long enough). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Zephyr Moon (1843-1910) in November 1857 and they had 10 children.

11/13/1833; Morgan County, GA

04/27/1923; Wellington, TX; burial in Farmer Cemetery, Farmer, TX