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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John T. Speights

(1839 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 19 year old farmer living with his parents and 8 siblings at Hickory Flat in Randolph County, 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 was seriously wounded by a gunshot at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 8 October and furloughed from 10 October to at least the end of February 1863. 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.

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 brother Green was also in Company I.

Birth

02/05/1839; Chambers County, 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 32934]

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 32935]

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