John Wesley Hunter

In 1860 he was a 30 year old farmer with a small place at Twelve Mile in the Pickens District, SC. He enlisted at Camp Hamilton near Columbia, SC on 18 January 1862 and mustered as 4th Sergeant of Company F of the 22nd South Carolina Infantry. He was elected First Lieutenant on 1 (or 5) May 1862.

He was probably sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, by 12 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to about 19 September, then sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore. He was transferred to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange, was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 13 October, furloughed for 30 days on 24 (or 27) October, and was formally exchanged on 8 November 1862.

He was wounded on 19 July 1864, probably near Petersburg, VA, by a gunshot which broke his lower jaw. He was afterward absent to 24 March 1865, disabled (and his rank and command suspended), by authority of a medical examining board. He was captured at Charlotte, NC on 13 May 1865, then a Lieutenant in a South Carolina local defense unit, and was paroled at Richmond, VA on 23 May, giving his former residence and destination as Baltimore, MD.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again a farmer in Pickens County, SC. He was a farm worker living with his widowed daughter Mary Melinda (Murphree/Murphy) and family on their place in Pickens, SC by 1900 and to at least 1910.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture is from a photograph shared to the FamilySearch database by Jim Ison in 2015.

He married Amelia "Millie" Stewart (1830-1901) in September 1856 and they had 5 children.

08/02/1829; Rabun County, GA

03/13/1915; burial in First Baptist Church Cemetery, Westminster, SC