John Thomas Maddox

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farm worker living with his parents, 4 siblings, and 1 slave on their farm at Bascobal in Jackson County, GA. He enlisted in Athens, GA on 5 September 1861 and mustered as First Corporal of Company D of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion. He was promoted to 2nd Sergeant by September 1862.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right arm just below the elbow in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was admitted to a hospital in Charlottesville, VA on 23 September and sent to one in Lynchburg, VA on 27 September 1862, then on furlough from 1 January to 13 April 1863. Except for another furlough in August 1864 he was afterward with his company to at least November 1864, the last record in his military file.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Athens in Jackson County, GA. In 1900 he was farming in Madison County, GA but by 1910 he lived with his daughter Bernice (Hutchens) and her family on worked on their farm back in Jackson County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with wound details from his 1900 Confederate pension application. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Rebecca Josephine Carter (1844-1906) in January 1866 and they had 8 children.

His brother Joseph Green Maddox (1840-1929) was also in Company D of the Legion (later in the Troup Artillery), and married Rebecca's sister Henrietta.

01/30/1842; Jackson County, GA

07/06/1913; burial in Pittman Cemetery, Madison County, GA