John Parish Rainey, Jr.

A school teacher's son, in 1860 he was an 18 year old student living with his parents and 6 siblings near Milton in Caswell County, NC. He enlisted in Milton 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 Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to 4th Corporal on 1 April 1863. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his arm on 3 May 1863 at Chancellorsville, VA and captured there. He was admitted to the Lincoln US Army General Hospital in Washington, DC on 8 May and sent to the Old Capitol Prison on 25 June. He was exchanged on 30 June, returned to duty about July, and was appointed First Lieutenant on 24 October 1863. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he was a farm worker living with his parents and siblings at Cunningham in Person County, NC but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he was farming his own place at Semora near Milton, NC.

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 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Anne Wilson Smith (1850-1882) in November 1881.

There's an excellent post-war photograph of him in the Rainey Family album on flickr.

08/18/1842; Caswell County, NC

03/14/1903; Caswell County, NC; burial in Red House Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Semora, NC