John Hillary Whitehurst

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer living with his (widowed?) mother Sabrina at Bethel in Pitt County, NC. He enlisted in Tarboro, NC on 8 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 16 May in Garysburg, NC. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was paroled on 20 September and returned to his company in about November 1862. He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July and captured there. He was treated in a US hospital on David's Island in New York Harbor to 27 August, then sent to City Point, VA for exchange. He was captured again, at Beverly's Bridge, VA on 2 April 1865 and held at Point Lookout, MD until 22 June, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

By 1880 he was a farmer in Halifax County, NC. In 1900 he was a salesman boarding with the Henry C Matthews family at Ringwood, NC and by 1910 was a manager living with his son James and family there. He'd finally retired by 1920, still living with James.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Wiggens "Bettie" Pullen (1845-1898) in December 1869 and they had 7 children.

11/27/1838; Pitt County, NC

05/25/1926; Raleigh, NC; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Smithfield, NC