John Milner Hawkins

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his father, stepmother, younger brother William, and 27 slaves on their plantation near Lexington in Oglethorpe County, GA. He enlisted there on 29 September 1861 and mustered at Camp Kirkpatrick near Decatur, GA as 2nd Sergeant of Company K (later C), the Wright Legion. They became Company E, 38th Georgia Infantry in April 1862. He was wounded at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

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

Probably disabled for field service, he was detailed home to Oglethorpe County, GA in February 1863 as a sub-enrolling officer and was in that post to at least April 1864 before returning to his company. He was surrendered and paroled with them at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870, then next door to his father, and to at least 1880, he was a farmer in Oglethorpe County, GA. In 1900 he was a school teacher in Jackson County, GA, but he was farming there in 1910. He'd retired and lived with his son Thomas on a truck farm at Sanford in Seminole County, FL in 1920.

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 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph with his brother Charles, from the David Wynn Vaughan Collection.

He married Althea Vernon Christian (1845-1921) in December 1869 and they had 4 children.

His brother Charles, 2nd Lieutenant of Company E, was wounded at Sharpsburg that September.

09/01/1843; Oglethorpe County, GA

11/23/1929; Seminole County, FL; burial in Apple Valley Baptist Church Cemetery, Jefferson, GA