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"Johnnie"
(1842 - 1907)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 31st Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer living with his parents, 6 younger siblings, and 1 slave on their farm at Dawson in Terrell County, GA. He enlisted in Dawson on 5 September 1861 and mustered in White Sulphur Springs on 18 September as a Private in Captain W.C. Thornton's company, soon after designated Company K, 27th Georgia Infantry. They were reorganized as Company K of the 31st Georgia Infantry in April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by gunshots to his knee and shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a US field hospital on near Sharpsburg then admitted to US Army Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 12 October. He was transferred to Fort McHenry in Baltimore the next day and sent on to Aikens' Landing, GA for exchange on 14 October. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 23 October and furloughed for 40 days on 6 or 12 November 1862. He remained on furlough until 9 March 1863, then was on detail to 9 September before returning to his company. He was again on detail away in November 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmer at Ellaville in Schley County, GA but by 1880 had moved to Arkansas and was living and working on his parent's farm in Pulaski County. In 1900 he was farming his own place there.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online via fold3. Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy of 18 November 1862. Hospital detail from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Nancy Frances "Fannie" Huckaby (1841-) in February 1863 and they had 4 children. He married again, Nancy Ann Scott (1857-) in December 1876 , and they had 3 more. He married, third, Laura F. Bailey (1864-1956) in 1887 and they had 3 children together.
Birth
04/10/1842; Lee County, GA
Death
03/31/1907; Natural Steps, AR; burial in Natural Steps Cemetery, Natural Steps, AR
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 35128]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.039 [AotW citation 35129]