John Wilburn Stephenson

In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his father and stepmother (?) on their small farm at Bowdon, Carroll County, GA. He enlisted there on 20 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right leg just above the knee, the bone broken, in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was on furlough home to at least the end of November 1862.

He later said he was put on light duty on 15 March 1864 and joined Company B, 16th Georgia Cavalry (no records found for such a Confederate States regiment, possibly a local defense unit).

In 1870 he was a farm worker living on James Meddows' place near Carrollton, GA. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was farming his own place near Victory in Carroll County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860, 1870, 1900, and 1910, and his Confederate pension application of 1908. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Saphronia Angeline Pitts (1849-1917) in January 1883 and they had a son and 3 daughters, 2 of whom died as infants.

05/23/1840 in GA

01/30/1915; Victory, GA; burial in Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Carroll County, GA