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Can you tell me more? I am collecting short Biographies on each soldier from an Alabama unit to be displayed on the Soldier Roots pages. With each Bio, I will display the Email address of the contributor or contributors as source/contacts for other researchers. Send the following information to me, Carolyn Golowka.
Items needed for Bio, but will take anything I can get:
- Soldiers birth and death dates with locations and burial location.
- Soldiers parents names and birth and death dates with locations and burial location
- Spouses name and birth and death dates with locations and burial location
- Childrens names and birth and death dates with locations and burial location
- Letters
- Military Records
- Photos
ADAH, seen below as a source,
stands for the Alabama Department of Archives and History
ADAH is linked to the Civil War Service Database, which is a
treasure of information
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JACKSON, John A. B. (Private, Company C, 25th
Alabama Infantry Regiment Shelby Confederates) Paroled at
Talladega, Alabama, May 24, 1865. Married Rozeline Burgess in
Shelby County, Alabama, November 16, 1858.
JACKSON, John C. (Private, Company F, 15th Alabama Infantry)
b. August 12, 1823 d. August 19, 1899 and Buried In Cool
Springs Baptist Church Cemetery Coffee County, Alabama
JACKSON, Norton (Private, Jenkins Alabama) Captured November 26, 1862 at
Greenbrier, Virginia; died March 3, 1863 of Variola at Alton Alton Federal Military Prison Illinois
JACKSON, Samuel - Reported at Talladega, Alabama, January 17,
1863. Died July 24, 1863. Death claim filed by his widow Frances
Jackson. Married Frances "Fanny" Merrell in Shelby
County, Alabama, October 20, 1853.
JAMES, W. A. (Private, Company K 14th
Alabama Infantry Regiment) Died September 8, 1862. Buried
Warrenton Cemetery, Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia.
JEFCOAT, S. F. (Private, Company G, 59th Alabama Infantry
Regiment) Buried at Point Lookout Maryland.
JETER, Ransom (Private, Company H, Jeff Davis Mississippi
Legion Cavalry) enlisted most likely at Troy, Alabama in August
1863 as Private, Company A, 4th Battalion (Love's) Alabama
Cavalry; the 4th went almost immediately to Virginia where it
became a part of the Jeff Davis Miss Legion Cavalry; Ransom Jeter
was paroled May 1, 1865 Greensboro. North Carolina as Private,
Company H, Jeff Davis Mississippi Legion Cavalry. the late Homer Jones
JOHNSON, A.G., (Private, Company E 5th Alabama
Infantry Reserves) Died April 13, 1865 at Elmira Military Prison,
Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 2703 at Woodlawn National
Cemetery.
JOHNSON, F. M. (Private, Company G, 48th Alabama Infantry
Regiment) Buried at Point Lookout Maryland.
JOHNSON, H. A., (Private, Company B 59th Alabama
Infantry Regiment) Died December 09, 1864 at Elmira Military
Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 1034 at Woodlawn
National Cemetery.
JOHNSON, Henry A. (Private, Company E, 2nd
Battalion, Hilliard's Legion/ after November 1863; Private,
Company B, 59th Alabama Infantry Regiment) He was not
with the company at the parole in April 1865.
JOHNSON, James. (Private, Company E, 53rd Alabama Mounted
Infantry) b. 1829 d. September 8, 1896 and Buried
Enterprise City Cemetery, North Main Street, Enterprise, Coffee
County, Alabama
JOHNSON, John M. (Private, Company C, 25th Alabama
Infantry Regiment Shelby Confederates) Discharged with
disability at Saltillo, Mississippi, July 28, 1862. Reported at
Talladega, Alabama, January 6, 1863; assigned to the regiment the
next day. Absent, October 1863 roll; sent to a hospital March 8,
1863. Paroled at Talladega, Alabama, May 24, 1865.
JOHNSON, J. W. (Private, Company E, 3rd Alabama Cavalry
Regiment) Buried at Point Lookout Maryland.
JOHNSON, Richard M. (Private, Company G, 6th Alabama Infantry
Regiment) Buried at Point Lookout Maryland.
JOHNSON, William V. (Private, Company C, 25th
Alabama Infantry Regiment Shelby Confederates) Reported at
Talladega, Alabama, January 3, 1863. Died of disease at Rome,
Georgia, March 26, 1863.
JOHNS(T)ON, Thomas, (Private, Company F 37th
Alabama Infantry Regiment) Thomas was born March 6, 1841 in
Alabama - died August 6, 1910, in Pike County, Alabama and buried
at Pleasant Hill Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery near the
Needmore Community of Pike County, Alabama the son of Parents
were Solomon Johnston and ? (name of mother unknown).
Married on August 9, 1870, in Pike County, Alabama, to Margarette
Isabelle Fletcher Hooks, born April 7, 1853 in Alabama died July
24, 1922, in Pike County, Alabama the daughter of George Hooks
and Matilda Sessions. Buried beside her husband. at
Pleasant Hill Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery near the Needmore
Community of Pike County, Alabama. Known children were Matilda
Johns(t)on (m. J. E. B. Hattaway), James Thomas Johns(t)on (m. 1st
Ella Harris, 2nd Vallie Gunter), Minnie Johns(t)on (m. Calvin
Poole), Mary L. Johns(t)on (never married), Willie Johns(t)on (never
married), Mittie Adell Johns(t)on (m. Willie Jackson Floyd), John
Luther Johns(t)on (m. 1st Eula Thompson, m. 2nd Arris Sharpe),
Viola Johns(t)on (m. 1st a Harris, m. 2nd J. E. B. Hattaway, m. 3rd
a Phillips), George Solomon Johns(t)on (died in childhood),
Gertrude Johns(t)on (m. Walter Monroe Reves).(Thomas Johns(t)on
is my great-grandfather.) Source: Judith Fowler
JOHNSTON, Wiley W. (Private, Company C, 25th
Alabama Infantry Regiment Shelby Confederates) Admitted to
Ocmulgee Hospital, Macon, Georgia, September 4, 1864. Transferred
to Eufaula, Alabama, September 11, 1864. Residence: Terrell
County, Georgia. No later record.
JOHNSTON, William (Private, Company D, 29th
Alabama) Captured: May 16, 1864 Resaca, Georgia; Died
October 29, 1864 Chronic Diarrhea at Alton Federal Military
Prison Illinois
JOINER, John W. (Private, Company C, 25th Alabama
Infantry Regiment Shelby Confederates) Enlisted at Fort
Gaines, Alabama, September 7, 1861. Died of disease at Meridian,
Mississippi, July 20, 1862. Death claim filed by his widow
Narcissa D. Joiner. Description: fair complexion, blue eyes, dark
hair, six feet tall, age twenty-nine. Born in Pike County,
Georgia.
JONES, Charles C. (Private, Company E, 15th Alabama Infantry)
b. July 6, 1829 d. April 21, 1909 and Buried Enterprise
City Cemetery, North Main Street, Enterprise, Coffee County,
Alabama
JONES, Elbert (Private, Company C, 25th Alabama
Infantry Regiment Shelby Confederates) Enlisted at Fort
Gaines, Alabama, September 7, 1861. Detailed as a cook, October/November
1862 rolls. Appointed 3rd Corporal {April} 1863. Present, October
1863 roll. On extra duty as a laborer, January 1864. Died of
wounds July 21, 1864.
JONES, Felix (Private, Company G 12th
Alabama Infantry Regiment) Died November 30, 1861. Buried
Warrenton Cemetery, Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia.
JONES, George N. (Private, Company C, 25th
Alabama Infantry Regiment Shelby Confederates) Enlisted at
Fort Gaines, Alabama, September 7, 1861. Absent sick, March 1862
roll; sent to 1st Mississippi Hospital, Corinth, Mississippi,
March 20, 1862. Absent sick. November 1862 roll; left at Glasgow,
Kentucky, September 12, 1862. Captured there October 20,
1862; exchanged at Vicksburg, Mississippi, November 15, 1862.
Died of disease in Dekalb County, Mississippi, January 4, 1863.
Death claim filed by Larkin Jones. Description: fair complexion,
blue eyes, dark hair, six feet tall, age twenty. Born in Shelby
County, Alabama.
JONES, George Washington (Private, Company C 35th
Alabama Infantry Regiment) George was born about 1834 in Lawrence
County, Alabama died 1904 and buried at Anthony Cemetery,
Giles County. Tennessee. I am not sure who his parents are at
this time. He married 1st 1859 at Moulton,
Lawrence County, Alabama to Mary Jane Long. They were the parents
of 3 or 4 Daughters, one was Laura, born in 1861, married a
Darius Clark. the other daughters are not known at this time.
After end of war, George and Mary Jane divorced and in he
married 2nd 1870 in Athens, Limestone County, Alabama
to Mary Ann Pinson Brown. Between 1870 and 1880, George and Mary
Ann relocated to Giles County, Tennessee. They are the parents of 4
boys and 1 girl. 1) Allen M. Jones (b. 1871 left
for Texas, about 1900 lost track of him); 2) Jearrie P. Jones
(b.1872 left for Texas about 1900 lost track of him); 3)
Mary Tennessee Jones (b. 1874 d. October 1882 and buried
Anthony Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee); 4) George Pinson Jones
(b. 1866 d. March 1949 and buried Lynnwood Cemetery,
Lynnville, Giles County, Tennessee). George Pinson married 1st
to Nola Callahan (b. 1872 in Alabama d. 1906 and buried in
Giles County, Tennessee); He married 2nd to Myrtle
Pinkleton (b.1898 and buried in Deerfield Beach Florida);
Married 3rd to Pearl Ward (b.1902 d. 1947 and
Buried Lynnwood Cemetery, Lynnville, Giles County, Tennessee); 5)
James Daniel Jones (b.1878 d. 1957 and buried
New Zion Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee) James married Sarah
Anna Callahan (b.1881 in Alabama d. in Tennessee and
buried in New Zion Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee). George
Washington Jones married 3rd August 1883 in
Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee to Virginia Ann Jones. No
children were born of this union. June 30,1904, Local Newspaper;
Body Recovered; The body of George Jones who was drowned in
Richland Creek near the Atchison farm Wednesday morning of last
week, was recovered about 2:00 that afternoon 40 to 50 yards from
were his fish nets were. As he was a good swimmer, the cause of
his drowning in a matter of conjecture but is supposed he cramped
or became tangled in some of the remnants of barbed wire fencing
which is found in nearly every creek in the county and
especially in Richland. Mr. Jones was an Ex-confederate and a
pensioner, having received his first pension money in December.
He survived by his wife and two sons. The burial occurred
Thursday at the Anthony Graveyard.. Enlisted at Lagrange,
Alabama. in 1861, contracted measles while marching in rain there.
Measles settled in his eyes and he was nearly blind the rest of
his life. His commanders were Goodwin or Goodman and
Ashford. In 1864 he was left at hospital in Moulton, Alabama.
where he helped care for the wounded and was cared for
himself. He never was able to go back to field. Sources: Pulaski
County Tennessee pension application made 1901; Census records,
Alabama and Tennessee; Alabama. marriage and death record, and
known family units. [email protected]
JONES, Henry Miley, (Private, Company I 1st
Alabama Infantry Reserves) Enlisted April 1863 at Selma, Alabama.
Captured and sent to Ship Island. After surrender was sent
to Vicksburg and paroled. Moved to Louisiana c1888; applied
for pension there. Source: Martha Gates
JONES, J. B., (Private, Company C 1st
Battalion Alabama Artillery) Died February 20, 1865 at Elmira
Military Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 2317 at
Woodlawn National Cemetery.
JONES, James M. Sergeant Company F 1st Battalion
Alabama Artillery) Died November 29, 1864 at Elmira Military
Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 983 at Woodlawn
National Cemetery.
JONES, James R. (Private, Company D 12th
Georgia Infantry Regiment) born 1848 died 1922; living in
Houston County Alabama. Sources: the late Homer Jones JONES,
John C. (Private, Company C, 25th Alabama Infantry
Regiment Shelby Confederates) Reported at Talladega,
Alabama, January 17, 1863. Died of disease at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, May 15, 1863. Married Martha C. Jones in Shelby
County, Alabama, December 5, 1852.
JONES, John H. (Private, Company B, 12th Alabama Infantry
Regiment) Buried at Point Lookout Maryland.
JONES, John L., (Private, Company B 61st
Alabama Infantry Regiment) Died September 01, 1864 at Elmira
Military Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 75 at
Woodlawn National Cemetery.
JONES, Samuel R. Jr. (Private, Company C &
K 1st Alabama Infantry Volunteer Regiment)
enlisted at Benton, Lowndes County Alabama Commanded by Captain
Stubbs. Sent to Island No. 10 about March 12, 1862 and was
killed there about 17 days later. Source: Martha Gates
JONES, W. S., (Private, Company I 7th Alabama
Cavalry) Died March 10, 1865 at Elmira Military Prison, Elmira
New York. Buried in Plot Number 1833 at Woodlawn National
Cemetery.
JONES, Walton C. (Private, Company C, 25th Alabama
Infantry Regiment Shelby Confederates) Enlisted at Barlow's
Mill, Alabama, January 6, 1862. Absent on duty with the
commissary, February - April 1862 rolls. Died of disease at
Corinth, Mississippi, April 30, 1862.
JONES, Win. L. (Private, Company D, 61st Alabama Infantry
Regiment) Buried at Point Lookout Maryland.
JORDAN, David Soule (Private, Company G, 4th
Alabama Cavalry ) Enlisted in Mobile, Alabama on August 8, 1864,
Captain Benjamin Toomer's Company Reserve Mounted, granted a 30
day leave of absence on October 1, 1864 by order of Major D. H.
Maury. Sources: ADAH
JOSLYN, R B (Private, Company C, Roddeys Alabama) Captured:
October 20, 1863 Iuka, Mississippi; Died December 20, 1863 Typhus
Malaria at Alton Federal Military Prison Illinois Buried: State
Ground Cemetery, North Alton Illinois.
JOSLYN, George (Private, Company C, Roddeys Alabama) Captured:
October 30, 1863 Iuka, Mississippi; Died December 14, 1863
Pneumonia at Alton Federal Military Prison Illinois Buried: State
Ground Cemetery, North Alton Illinois.
JUDAH, James W. (Vaughn's Company, Dale County Reserves) born
1848 died 1928; living in Houston County Alabama. Sources:
the late Homer Jones
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