John R. Register

In 1860 he was a 30 year old farmer with a wife Matilda and 2 daughters, Nancy (1) and Mary (5), at Newton in Dale County, AL. He enlisted at Franklin, AL on 10 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 38th Georgia 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 and died there on 16 September 1862.

He was "buried on west side of, and in the [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick, boards up."

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. He's in the Bowie List [p. 77] of Confederate burials, quoted above, as being from Big Creek in Dale County, AL; his unit not identified. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his modern stone has him in the 6th Alabama Infantry, in error.

He enlisted at Franklin, AL in 1862 with Michael Cooley, whose wife was Mary Jane Register (1828-1905), a likely relative.

c. 1830 in SC

09/16/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD