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- John is listed in the 1850 Davie County, NC Census as #0679, age 26 (born about 1824). Living with him is his wife, Rebecca Wyatt, age 21 (born about 1829). They were married in 1846 and, later, moved to Lawrence County, Missouri.
John enlisted on July 21, 1862 in Company A, 11th Missouri Infantry Regt., CSA and apparently served in that unit throughout the war. His Regiment, commanded by Major James Phillips towards the end of the war, was surrendered on May 26, 1865 at New Orleans, Louisiana by General E. K. Smith, CSA to Major E.R.S. Canby, U.S.A.. John was paroled at Shreveport, LA. on June 8, 1865. He attempted to walk home but died of yellow fever somewhere in Georgia.
The 11th Missouri Infantry CSA was first Commanded by Col. Simon P. Burns; then Lt. Col. Thomas H. Murray and last by Maj. James Phillips. This unit was first organized by Col. DeWitt C. Hunter as the 8th Missouri Infantry but was later reorganized and redesignated to prevent its confusion with Mitchell's 8th Missouri Infantry (commanded by Col. Charles S. Mitchell). Burns'/Hunter's original regiment (designated as the 8th Missouri Infantry) saw action at the Battle of Helena and during Shelby's Missouri/Arkansas raid of Sept/Oct. 1863. As designated the 11th Missouri Infantry, this regiment engaged the Federals during the Red River Campaign, Battles of Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry among others.
John's second wife, Mary Cantrell (whom he married after the death of his first wife, Rebecca Wyatt) wrote to the Foster and Wyatt families after John's death to advise that she was unable financially to continue caring for all seven children --three from John's marriage to Rebecca and four from his marriage to Mary. She asked for someone to come to Lawrence County, Missouri and take Pleasant Lee, Perry Marshall and Hiriam Mitchell to John's family in Davie County, North Carolina.
John's brothers, Coleman and Samuel--who had just returned home to Davie County after General Robert E. Lee's surrender of all Confederate forces at Appomattox, VA--went to Missouri to bring the three boys back to Davie County. The round trip by covered wagon, including crossing the Mississippi River by raft, took nearly three months to complete. Upon arrival back in Davie, Pleasant Lee was given a home by his maternal grandfather, William Wyatt. Hiriam Mitchell was taken in by his Uncle, Coleman Foster and Perry Marshall by his Uncle, Samuel Foster.
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1824 - 1865 (41 years)
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