John William Carr

In 1860 he was an 18 year old clerk living with merchant W.H.C. Pace (a paternal relative?), his family, and 11 slaves at Franklin in Heard County, GA. He enlisted on 1 August 1861 in Covington, Newton County, GA and mustered as a Private in Company A, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August.

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

He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange; he was formally exchanged there on 10 November. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 12 October and sent home on furlough on 15 October 1862. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given, and was captured again, on 1 June 1864 at Gaines' Mills, VA and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD. He was exchanged on 17 January 1865 and was in the parole camp, Lee, in Richmond by 25 January, with no later military record.

In 1870 he was farming with his father at Conyers in Newton County, GA but by 1880 was a farmer on his own place in Conyers, then in Rockdale County, GA. In 1900 he was a bookkeeper in Atlanta, GA and was a grain dealer there in 1910. He retired by 1920 and lived in Atlanta with his son George and family. He moved to San Antonio, TX later that year or in 1921, and died there at age 80 in 1922.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

04/15/1842; Covington, GA

08/05/1922; San Antonio, TX; burial in Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, TX