John Albert Chewning

In 1860 he was a 16 year old farmer living with his mother and 2 siblings at Decatur in DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted there on 12 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

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

He was sent from Fort McHenry in Baltimore to Aikens' Landing, VA on 2 October and formally exchanged to date from 10 November. He was appointed 5th Sergeant on 1 December 1862 and was on furlough in Decatur in February and March 1863.

He transferred to Company D, 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters about June 1863 and was promoted to First Sergeant on 15 June. He was captured again, on 16 August 1864 at Front Royal, VA, and was sent to the prison at Elmira, NY on 29 August. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 7 July 1865 and was released.

In 1870 he was back farming with his mother and sister California in Decatur, GA but by 1880 was working his own place near Atlanta in Fulton County, GA.

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

He married Margarett Hudgens (later Jamison, 1856-1925) in September 1874 and they had 2 children,

c. 1844 in GA

1895; Atlanta, GA