John B. Heath

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer living with Jacob Ingles and family on their small farm at Mount Yonah in White County, GA. He enlisted at Nacoochee in White County, GA on 24 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 24th Georgia Infantry.

He was with his company in Maryland and was left at Sharpsburg on 18/19 September 1862 to help tend the wounded and was captured there.

He was paroled at Sharpsburg on 27 September and transferred for exchange, date not given. He had not returned to his unit by the end of November 1862 and had no later record with the 24th Infantry.

He transferred to Company B of the 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters on 8 June 1863 and was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 14 June. He was reported absent without leave as of 12 November and had been reduced to Private and declared a deserter by February 1864. He had not returned by February 1865, the latest record in his military file.

By 1870 he was a farm laborer living next door to the Ingles place in White County, GA but in 1880 was farming his own place at Kingston in Bartow County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Sharpsburg detail from a casualty list in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy   of 18 November 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Frances “Frankey” A. Vandiver (1846-1916) in June 1868 and they had 4 children.

08/21/1843 in GA

01/01/1884; burial in Kingston City Cemetery, Kingston, GA