John F. Moore
John F. Moore was born around 1832 in Georgia. He married Elizabeth Hodnett on August 24, 1852, and they had at least eight children: Mary, born around 1854; Cary, born around 1856; S. K. born around 1859; P.E., born around 1860; Alice, born around 1863; George, born around 1865; A.J., born around 1867; and Minnie, born around 1874. They lived in West Point, Georgia, and he worked as a farmer. By 1860, he owned $200 of personal property.
He enlisted in the Confederate army on August 21, 1862, and he mustered in as a private in Company K of the 13th Georgia Infantry. According to his service records, he was 6 feet, ½ inch tall, with light brown hair and gray eyes. The regiment took part in the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Battle of Gettysburg, the Overland Campaign, the Battle of Monocacy, the Shenandoah Valley campaign, and the Appomattox campaign.
He was wounded at Antietam on September 17, 1862, and he spent the next five months at home recovering. On June 7, 1864, he was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, Virginia, to treat a case of dysentery. He returned to duty on June 19. Union forces captured him near Danville, Virginia, on April 6, 1865, and imprisoned him at Point Lookout, Maryland. He was released on June 29, 1865, after swearing an oath of allegiance to the Union.
He returned to Troup County, Georgia, after the war and resumed his work as a farmer. By 1870, he owned $500 of personal property. They moved to Ripville, Alabama, in the 1870s. His wife died in the early 1880s, and he remarried soon afterward. He fell seriously ill in the late 1890s, and he was reportedly “hardly able to leave the room half the time” for the rest of his life. By 1900, he was living in Milltown, Alabama. He died on February 20, 1905.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (4236) | Moore, John F. | 1832 | 1905-02-20 |
- Conflict Side: Confederacy
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Private
- Rank out: Private
- Rank highest: Private
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (475) [writer] ~ Thomas J. Hodnett and John F. Moore to Mary E. Hodnett, 31 August 1863
People - Records: 11
- (4236) Moore, John F. is the [sibling-in-law of] (304) Hodnett, John W.
- (4236) Moore, John F. is the [sibling-in-law of] (305) Hodnett, Mary Elizabeth
- (4236) Moore, John F. is the [sibling-in-law of] (307) Hodnett, Benjamin Franklin
- (4236) Moore, John F. is the [sibling-in-law of] (308) Hodnett, Samuel G.
- (4236) Moore, John F. is the [sibling-in-law of] (309) Hodnett, William Henry Harrison
- (4236) Moore, John F. is the [sibling-in-law of] (311) Hodnett, Thomas Jefferson
- (4236) Moore, John F. is the [sibling-in-law of] (314) Hodnett, Robert Ridley
- (4236) Moore, John F. is the [sibling-in-law of] (315) Hodnett, George Troup
- (4236) Moore, John F. is the [sibling-in-law of] (316) Stephens, Susan
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (2) [enlisted] [K] ~ 13th Georgia Infantry
SOURCES
1860, 1870, 1880, and 1900 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Military Service Records of John F. Moore, available from Fold3.com; Georgia Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1828-1978, available from Ancestry.com; The Lafayette (AL) Sun, 22 February 1905.
