John Green Monk

He enlisted on 5 May 1861 at Roxboro in Person County, NC and mustered as a Private in Company A of the 14th North Carolina Infantry on 10 July. They were re-designated the 24th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was 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 18 September then a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, when he was sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 7 October and was formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862. He was afterward with his company to the end of the war and was surrendered and paroled between 11 and 21 April 1865 at Farmville, VA.

By 1880 he was living on his father-in-law's farm in Person County, NC.

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 1880.

He married Jane Catherine Whitfield (1840-1970) in January 1867 and they had 2 children.

07/23/1842; Person County, NC

12/20/1898; Person County, NC; burial in Brookland United Methodist Church Cemetery, Roxboro, NC