John Hoyle Howey

Son of a farm worker, in 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 3 siblings at Charlotte in in Mecklenburg County, NC. He enlisted there with his father William on 13 September 1861 and both mustered in Wilmington, NC on 8 October as Privates in Company K, 30th 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 18 September, a prisoner at Fort Delaware, then transferred on 2 October to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 9 October, sent to the parole camp on 18 October, and officially exchanged on 10 November 1862.

He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he was a farmer living with his mother and 3 siblings at Indian Land in Lancaster County, SC, living next door to Company K veteran and fellow Fredrick captive Orren L Pierce, and was farming his own place there in 1880. By 1900 he was a farmer at Sandy Ridge in Union County, NC. He was retired and living there with his son Milas in 1910.

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 gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from an 1861 ambrotype (with his father) owned by descendant David King and published in Greg Mast's State Troops and Volunteers, A Photographic Record of North Carolina's Civil War Soldiers (Volume 1, 1995).

He married Mary Adeline Wolfe (1845-1909) and they had 10 children between 1871 and 1888.

His father was discharged from the 30th North Carolina for disability on 13 February 1862.

08/28/1844 in NC

01/18/1911; Union County, NC; burial in Bonds Grove Methodist Church Cemetery, Waxhaw, NC