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J.W. Mickle
"Jack"
(1839 - 1919)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A married 20 year old farmer at Corn House, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to 14 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Randolph County, but he moved his family to Tarrant County, TX about 1890 and was a farmer there to at least 1910.
References & notes
His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives,2 as Jackson W Mickle. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1910, and Reminiscences.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a c. 1858 photograph shared to the FamilySearch database by Margaret3130.
He married Emily Francis Owen (1838-1910) and they had 8 children between 1859 and 1880).
Birth
12/09/1839; Roanoke, AL
Death
10/07/1919; Fort Worth, TX; burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, TX
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32781]
2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32782]
3 Yeary, Mamie, Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861-1865, 2 Volumes, Dallas: Smith & Lamar, 1912, Vol. 2, p. 515 [AotW citation 32783]