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Confederate (CSA)

Private

Isaac Johnson

(1839 - 1927)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

A farmer's son, in 1860 he was a 21 year old living with his father Jeremiah, step-mother, and 7 siblings on their farm near Hopeful in Burke County, GA. He enlisted on 1 (or 8 or 12) August 1861 in Waynesboro, GA and mustered as a Private in Company E, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was home on furlough from 7 October to 30 November 1862, then returned to duty. He was captured at Front Royal, VA on 16 August 1864, was held briefly in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then a prisoner at Elmira, NY to 14 March 1865, when he was sent to James River, VA for exchange.

After the War

By 1870 he was farming next door to his father near Waynesboro in Burke County, GA and in 1880 was a grist miller there. He applied for a Confederate pension in Richmond County, GA in each year from 1901 through 1907.

References & notes

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

Birth

07/22/1839; Burke County, GA

Death

08/22/1927; Augusta, GA; burial in Mount Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery, Augusta, GA

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 33835]

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