John Hiram Rhodes

An unmarried 29 year old farmer from Arbacoochee, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was in action with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded in the left arm and side by a piece of shell at Chancellorsville, VA on 7 May 1863 and on wounded and sick furlough to about October 1863. He was captured in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May (or at Spotsylvania Court House on 12 May) 1864 and was held at Point Lookout, MD to 30 July, when he was transferred to the prison at Elmira, NY. He signed a statement in October 1864 that he wished to give an oath of allegiance to the United States and remain in the North, and that he'd volunteered for Confederate service to avoid conscription in June 1863 [sic]. Nothing came of that statement, and he was finally released after taking the oath on 17 May 1865.

By 1894 and to at least 1907 he was farming at Lecta in Cleburne County, AL.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, as Hiram J Rhodes, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from his Confederate pension applications of 1892 to 1907, in which he says he was wounded at Sharpsburg in May 1863.

c. 1832 in AL