John Glenn Hendrick

In 1860 he was a 25 year old farmer living with Berryman Green Pulliam, his family, and 52 slaves on the Pulliam plantation at Milton (or Leasburg) in Caswell County, NC. He enlisted there on 24 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 May in Raleigh. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was back with his unit about January 1863 and was promoted to 4th Corporal on 29 October 1863 and to First Corporal on 29 April 1864. He was wounded again, by a gunshot about 10 May, place not given, and was in hospitals in Danville and Farmville, VA with "paralysis partial" to 15 July. He was reduced to 2nd Corporal on 31 October 1864, the latest record in his military file.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Roxboro in Person County, NC but by 1880 and to at least 1910 was farming at Mt Carmel in Halifax County, VA.

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave; he apparently used the surname Hendrick most of his life, and his father was a Hendrick, but he was buried as Hendricks.

He married Mary Ann Warren (1845-1936) in March 1868 and they had 5 children.

09/13/1836; Caswell County, NC

12/31/1917; burial in Hendricks Family Cemetery (Alton), Halifax County, VA