John C. Totten, Jr.

A 25 year old farmer, he enlisted at Mocksville, NC on 6 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 31 August. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was captured at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

He was a prisoner in Fort Delaware until 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November and transferred to Company A on 15 December 1862. He was wounded by a gunshot to his leg at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and died of wounds and typhoid fever in CS General Hospital #2 in Danville, VA on 19 July.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brothers Thomas (b. 1839) and Henry (b. 1842) were also in Company A of the 13th Infantry; Thomas was killed at Chancellorsville, VA in May 1863 and Thomas at Williamsburg, VA in May 1862.

02/22/1833; Caswell County, NC

07/19/1863; Danville, VA; burial in Totten-Vanhook Family Cemetery, Locust Hill, NC