John A. Shaddox

In 1860 he was a 21 year old living on the Allen Hood farm at Starrsville in Newton County, GA. He enlisted in Covington, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company A of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

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

He was sent for exchange from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA on 2 (or 6) October, admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 14 October, and furloughed home for 25 days on 25 October. He was formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862. He was sick in Richmond hospitals in July and August 1863 and again in July and August 1864. He was captured at Strasburg, VA on 19 October 1864, a prisoner at Harpers Ferry to the 23rd, then sent to Point Lookout, MD. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 19 June 1865 and was released.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer back at Starrsville in Newton County, GA. He had retired there by 1910.

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

He married Mary A. T. Morgan (1843-1926) in December 1868 and they had as many as 6 children.

10/16/1838 in GA

02/22/1915; Newton County, GA; burial in Starrsville Cemetery, Newton County, GA