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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

John W. Rigsby

(c. 1841 - 1920)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old farmer living with his mother and 4 siblings on their small farm at Almond in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted at Yorktown, VA on 10 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 5th Sergeant on 1 August 1862.

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 away on detail, on furlough, or in hospitals to at least June 1864 and was transferred to Company L of the 7th Confederate States Cavalry on 5 August 1864.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farmer at Franklin in Heard County, GA. By 1900 he was a merchant at Mountain Spring/Phil Campbell in Franklin County, AL and in 1910 he was a farmer there. Still in Phil Campbell, he'd finally retired by 1920.

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, 1870, 1900-1920.

He married Sarah Elizabeth Camp (1845-1922) in September 1865.

Birth

c. 1841; Randolph County, AL

Death

11/20/1920; burial in Phil Campbell Cemetery, Phil Campbell, AL

Notes

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 32886]

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 32887]

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