John E. P. McDougal

In 1860 he was a 27 year old coach and wagon maker at High Shoal in Clarke County, GA. He enlisted in Madison, GA on 15 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was captured at Crampton's Gap on 14 September (or at Frederick, MD on 12 September) 1862.

He was paroled on 26 September, admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 17 October, and returned to duty on 5 December 1862. He was wounded by a gunshot to his left arm in June 1864, place not given, and was in hospitals in Danville, VA and Raleigh, NC that month and into July. He was admitted to the Jackson Hospital in Richmond, VA on 7 August and sent home to High Shoal, GA on furlough on 12 August 1864. He was back in Jackson Hospital on 7 January 1865 and returned to duty on 25 February.

He was captured at Amelia Courthouse, VA on 6 April 1865 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 29 June, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

In 1880 he was a farmer in Walton County, GA but by 1900 was farming in Cobb County, GA. In 1910 he was retired and living with his wife and daughter Lulu (Gaines) in Atlanta, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as J.E.P. McDonald. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth D. Waggoner (1841-) in January 1859 and they had at least 6 chidren.

02/1822 in GA

03/1913; Atlanta, GA; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Atlanta, GA