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(c. 1842 - 1865)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old farmer living with his parents and 8 siblings at Rockdale/Lamar in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Eastville, AL on 12 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his company 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 sent to the prison at Fort Delaware. He died there of disease on 10 April 1865.
References & notes
His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
His brothers Isaac, James, and Kindred (1832-1880; not at Sharpsburg) were also in Company E. Isaac and James were also captured at Gettysburg, and James, like John died in captivity at Fort Delaware.
Birth
c. 1842; Covington, GA
Death
04/10/1865; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ
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 32792]
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 32793]