John W. Grant

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer living with his parents and 4 siblings on their small farm at Hookerton in Greene County, NC. He enlisted in Goldsboro, NC on 13 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

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

He was 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 to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was wounded in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and again at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July, and was captured there. He was briefly at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, sent on to Fort Delaware on 9 July, transferred to Point Lookout, MD on 18 October, and admitted to Hammond General Hospital there. He was moved from the hospital to the general prison population there on 11 February 1864 and paroled and sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange just over a year later on 24 February 1865. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 25 February and paid up to date there on 6 March. There is no later record in his military file.

In 1870 he was a farm worker at Snow Hill in Greene County, NC and by 1880 and to at least 1900 was farming his own place there. By 1910 he'd retired and lived with his son Stephen and family at Hookerton, NC.

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 and the US Census of 1860-1910; his son Stephen gave his father's birthday as 10 April 1841 on his death certificate. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Penelope Harrison (1838-1900) and they had 5 children between 1865 and 1884.

10/1842; Greene County, NC

04/10/1915; Hookerton, NC; burial in Rainbow Cemetery, Snow Hill, NC