John Duncan Currie

In 1860 he was a 25 year old college student living with his parents, 2 younger sisters, and 6 slaves on their farm at Brown Marsh in Bladen County, NC. He enlisted on 22 May 1861 at Wilmington, NC and mustered on 15 June as a Private in Company K (the Bladen Guards), 8th North Carolina Infantry. They were re-designated the 18th Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 10 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.

He was treated for a gunshot wound in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.

He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant to date from 1 November 1862 and was wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and furloughed for 60 days on 27 July. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his neck and shoulder in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864, and was in the CSA General Hospital in Charlottesville, VA from 12 May to 5 October 1864. He was afterward absent on wounded furlough to at least 28 February 1865, the latest record in his military file.

By 1866 and to at least 1880 he was a merchant with a store at Brown Marsh/Clarkton, NC, with partner and brother-in-law John Hector Clark (1821-1898; husband of John's sister Margaret Ann, and namesake of Clarkton in 1874). In 1900 he was editor of the Clarkton Express and farmer there. During his partnership with Clark he also had interests in a turpentine distillery, cooperage, and saw and grist mills, and was co-founder and operator of the Clarkton Academy (1874-c.1895).

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, and the National Register of Historic Places nomination [pdf] for the Clark house in Clarkton. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amanda Louise Cromartie (1842-1918) and they had 2 sons Neill (1870-1950) and George (1872-1928).

01/12/1835; Nash Clarkton, NC

07/16/1901; Clarkton, NC; burial in Clarkton Cemetery, Clarkton, NC