John Calhoun Key

A lawyer and politician before the War, he helped organize his company and mustered into service as Captain of the Jasper Volunteers - Company B of the 44th Georgia Infantry on 17 March 1862.

He commanded the depleted Forty-Fourth at Sharpsburg as the senior officer present.

He was wounded at Chancellorsville 4 May 1863, saw action at Gettysburg, and was promoted Major of the regiment in September 1863. He retired from field service in May 1864 for disability, and was assigned duty in Augusta to the end of the War.

He returned to his law practice in Monticello, Jasper County and again served in the state legislature (1882-83).

Basic service information here from Thomas1 - which includes a rough portrait, with additional information from a biographical sketch transcribed online by Harris Hill from Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia & Florida (1899). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

02/25/1826; Jasper County, GA

06/01/1902; Monticello, GA; burial in Monticello Methodist Church, Jasper County, GA