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(1843 - 1922)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an unmarried 17 year old farmer living with his parents and 7 younger siblings on their small farm at Rockdale/Wedowee in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 2 October and furloughed home for 60 days on 28 October 1862. He was wounded again at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and for the third time at Jones Farm near Petersburg, VA on 30 September 1864. He was furloughed to Randolph County, Al on 4 November 1864 and was paroled at Talladega, AL on 25 May 1865.
After the War
By 1880 he was a farmer in McClennan County, TX. In 1910 he was farming in Runnels County, TX but by 1920 he had retired and was living in Waco back in McClennan County.
References & notes
His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives,2 as John D Morgan. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, 1910, and 1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave, which has his birth in 1846.
He married Nancy Ann Hicks (1846-1926) in November 1864 and they had 6 children.
His father David was also at Sharpsburg, but died of pneumonia in a Richmond, VA hospital on 8 January 1863.
Birth
11/20/1843; Hall County, GA
Death
09/04/1922; McLennan County, TX; burial in Gerald Cemetery, Gerald, 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 32801]
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 32803]
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 32802]
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 32804]