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Consolidated Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers
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Individual States:
Florida
American Civil War Roots Genealogy A good place to look
for your Florida Civil War Relatives
While at the Gadsden library I copied a few pages from "The
Roster of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865, Volume VIII" edited
by Janet B. Hewett. I found the following listing:
John, M. AL, 58th Inf. Co. A
Johns, Marion, AL, 1st Cav. Doudson's Co.
Johns, Marion, AL, 12th Cav, Co. E.
Johns, Marion, AL, 51st (Part. Rangers) Co. E.
Johns, Marion, TN, 26th Inf. Co. E.
Marion Johns Co. E, 51 Alabama Partisan Rangers Captured Shelbyville,
TN 6-27-1863 Taken to Louisville, KY 7-3-1863 Taken
to Camp Chase, OH 7-6-1863 Taken to Ft. Delaware, 7-14-1863
Died 10-18-1863 of small pox.
Marion Johns Co. E, 12 Alabama Cavalry Donelson's Co., 1 Alabama
Cavalry Enlisted 8-21-1862 at Mt. Alvies, Alabama;(near current
day-Vinemont in Cullman Co., AL) horse value $150 POW of Middleton,
TN 1-31-1863; sent to City Point, James River, VA. 2-11-1863 Roll
of POW, Ft. McHenry, Maryland 2-14-1863 Sent to Fortress Monroe
for exchange by order of Mjr. Gen. Schenck 2-15-1863Paroled at City
Point, VA, no date Admitted to General Hospital, Petersburg,
VA 2-18-1863 Died of Typh. pneumonia 3-3-1863
WILLIAM
SMITH
JOHNS was
born March 20, 1843 in Arthur Kentucky, and died May 30, 1892 in
E. St. Louis Ill.. He married ELIZABETH
SKINNER August 31, 1863
in Randolph County Ill., daughter of SKINNER
and ORDELIA.
William Smith Johns at the age of 43, on 20th Aug 1861 joined Company
"C" of the Illinois Volunteers.Private Johns was in the
battle of BigShanty & was in General Shermans march to the sea.
He was in a skirmish in which 20 were killed and was wounded at
Brush Mountain near Kenisaw Georgia by Shapranel around 27 June
1864. He was treated at Rome Ga. Hospital and transferred to Fort
Donaldson Hosp., at Jackson Tenn. He was sent to Washington
DC for war ending ceremonies and sent to Louisville Ky. for discharge
on 17 July 1865. His company walked from Memphis Tenn to meet with
Shermans march to the sea in Georgia and was wounded in Georgia.
This data taken from copies of the official War Dept Adjutant Generals
Office Pension record No. 55,9369. by Lester P, Johns Jr.
Burial Mt. Hope Cemetary Belleville Ill.
Gen Lee's Orderly Johns present at his side at Appomattox
Court House:
General Lee was accompanied only by Colonel Marshall, formerly
of Baltimore, at present aid-de-camp on his staff, and Orderly Johns
, who has served him in that capacity for fourteen months.
(The identity of the Johns who served as Lee's orderly has not been
definitively established.)
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