John Leatherman

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker living with his parents and 2 siblings on their small farm at Arcadia in Davidson County, NC. He enlisted in Lexington, NC on 25 March 1862 and mustered on 22 April at Camp Mangum near Raleigh as a Private in Company H, 48th 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 then sent south for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 11 October then sent to the parole camp there, and was back with his company by February 1863. He was wounded by a gunshot through both thighs, probably in action at Spotsylvania Court House, VA, admitted to Jackson Hospital in Richmond on 18 May 1864, and died there of wounds on 25 May.

His father Daniel filed a claim for his final pay in January 1865.

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. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1839; Davidson County, NC

05/24/1864; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA