John Montgomery was born @1842 to parents Jessee (b. @1810) and Nancy Montgomery. He had the following known siblings: Taylor (b. @1844), Eliza E. (b. @1847), and Scrilda F. (b. @1850).
Montgomery enlisted in Co. C, 38th Indiana Infantry on Sept. 18, 1861. He reenlisted as a veteran volunteer on Dec. 28, 1863 at Chattanooga, TN. He was killed at the Battle of Jonesboro, GA on Sept. 1, 1864 and originally buried in a fenced in soldier plot 1 ¼ miles north of Jonesboro alongside the RR track and Flat Shoal Road. In addition to Montgomery, six other 38TH IND INF soldiers who were killed outright at Jonesboro were also first interred here: Samuel S. Shoulders, Henderson Whittacre, SGT William Tucker, Thomas J. Craig, SGT George W. Field, and CAPT Adam Osborne. All of these men were exhumed from this grave area after the war and reinterred in Marietta Nat’l. Cemetery in Cobb Co., GA.
His mother Nancy applied for a pension on Nov. 1, 1879 (app. #253,757; cert. #198,513).
Montgomery enlisted in Co. C, 38th Indiana Infantry on Sept. 18, 1861. He reenlisted as a veteran volunteer on Dec. 28, 1863 at Chattanooga, TN. He was killed at the Battle of Jonesboro, GA on Sept. 1, 1864 and originally buried in a fenced in soldier plot 1 ¼ miles north of Jonesboro alongside the RR track and Flat Shoal Road. In addition to Montgomery, six other 38TH IND INF soldiers who were killed outright at Jonesboro were also first interred here: Samuel S. Shoulders, Henderson Whittacre, SGT William Tucker, Thomas J. Craig, SGT George W. Field, and CAPT Adam Osborne. All of these men were exhumed from this grave area after the war and reinterred in Marietta Nat’l. Cemetery in Cobb Co., GA.
His mother Nancy applied for a pension on Nov. 1, 1879 (app. #253,757; cert. #198,513).
John Montgomery was born @1842 to parents Jessee (b. @1810) and Nancy Montgomery. He had the following known siblings: Taylor (b. @1844), Eliza E. (b. @1847), and Scrilda F. (b. @1850).
Montgomery enlisted in Co. C, 38th Indiana Infantry on Sept. 18, 1861. He reenlisted as a veteran volunteer on Dec. 28, 1863 at Chattanooga, TN. He was killed at the Battle of Jonesboro, GA on Sept. 1, 1864 and originally buried in a fenced in soldier plot 1 ¼ miles north of Jonesboro alongside the RR track and Flat Shoal Road. In addition to Montgomery, six other 38TH IND INF soldiers who were killed outright at Jonesboro were also first interred here: Samuel S. Shoulders, Henderson Whittacre, SGT William Tucker, Thomas J. Craig, SGT George W. Field, and CAPT Adam Osborne. All of these men were exhumed from this grave area after the war and reinterred in Marietta Nat’l. Cemetery in Cobb Co., GA.
His mother Nancy applied for a pension on Nov. 1, 1879 (app. #253,757; cert. #198,513).
Montgomery enlisted in Co. C, 38th Indiana Infantry on Sept. 18, 1861. He reenlisted as a veteran volunteer on Dec. 28, 1863 at Chattanooga, TN. He was killed at the Battle of Jonesboro, GA on Sept. 1, 1864 and originally buried in a fenced in soldier plot 1 ¼ miles north of Jonesboro alongside the RR track and Flat Shoal Road. In addition to Montgomery, six other 38TH IND INF soldiers who were killed outright at Jonesboro were also first interred here: Samuel S. Shoulders, Henderson Whittacre, SGT William Tucker, Thomas J. Craig, SGT George W. Field, and CAPT Adam Osborne. All of these men were exhumed from this grave area after the war and reinterred in Marietta Nat’l. Cemetery in Cobb Co., GA.
His mother Nancy applied for a pension on Nov. 1, 1879 (app. #253,757; cert. #198,513).
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CO C
38 REGT
IND INF
SEPT 1 1864
E 5636
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