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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John W. Cranford

(1840 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was conscripted at Raleigh, NC on 16 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 14th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

... captured by the enemy at Sharpsburg [sic], and remained with them more than three months. During which time he suffered much from sickness; before he finally recovered

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September then in the US hospital in Chester, PA. He was sent to Fort Delaware and transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 15 December 1862.

He hastened to rejoin his companions, where he was always ready to obey orders. In the memorable battle of Chancellorsville [3 May 1863] he received a severe wound in the right arm, it was amputated and he was conveyed to Richmond, where he took the typhoid fever. His father on hearing the sad fate of his son, went immediately after him and brought him home [about 27 May], where he survived only a few days.

References & notes

His service from Moore,1 as J.M. Crawford, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, indexed under J.M. Cranford. Quotes above from his death notice in the Fayetteville Observer of 1 February 1864. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

05/08/1840; Montgomery County, NC

Death

06/12/1863; Montgomery County, NC; burial in Zoar Cemetery, Montgomery County, NC

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, pg. 532 [AotW citation 10044]

2 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 34162]

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