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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Alexander Chestnut

(c. 1838 - 1872)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer living with his sisters Martha and Susan in Jefferson County, FL. He enlisted in Covington, GA on 10 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital at Burkittsville, MD. He was sent from Fort McHenry in Baltimore to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 17 October, admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 24 October, and furloughed home for 30 days on 11 November 1862. He was away from his company on detail by February 1864 and was retired to the Invalid Corps on 26 July 1864, with no later military record.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farmer near Sand Rock in Cherokee County, AL.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850-1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lucinda Frances Bartlett (later Plunket, 1850-1940) in December 1868 in Newton County, GA.

Birth

c. 1838; Jefferson County, FL

Death

07/13/1872; Sand Rock, AL; burial in Mount Lookout Cemetery, Collinsville/Sand Rock, AL

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33739]

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