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Confederate (CSA)

Sergeant

John Daniel Lafayette Keaton

(1839 - 1888)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a clergyman, in 1860 he was a 21 year old farm worker living with miller Jonathan Mostiller and family near Flint Hill in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted on 15 August 1861 at Carrollton, GA and mustered the same day as a Private in Company F, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 30 July 1861. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal by December 1861 and to 5th Sergeant by September 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was on furlough to Carrolton, GA from 2 October 1862 to 24 March 1863. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA in April 1863 and again furloughed home in May. He was retired to the Invalid Corps on 2 May 1864 and assigned to the post at Atlanta, GA.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Carroll County, GA.

References & notes

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

He married Sarah M. Williams (1840-1910) in June 1863 and they had 7 children.

Birth

02/08/1839; Carroll County, GA

Death

02/03/1888; Carroll County, GA; burial in Powell Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Villa Rica, 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 33841]

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