Family Bible record transcript from John R Pollard June 2007 handed down from Barbara Pollard Stokes via Geneva Bell Stokes. See father-in-law John W Pollard FindAGrave 248287499 notes.
John W Brooks joined the Confederate service on 22 March 1862 at Fayette County, AL, along with four brothers-in-law, Wiley B Pollard, Luallen G Pollard, Latimore M. Pollard, Corp Henry W Stokes, and William H Pratt, in Company B, 41st Alabama Infantry. John appears on company muster roll for 22 March 1862 to 30 June 1862. He served in the Battle of Stone's River and the Battle of Chickamauga. CSA Records indicate he became very ill in late December, 1863, "left sick on march from Charleston to Knoxville".
From "The 41st Alabama Infantry Regiment CSA", A Narrative History of A Civil War Regiment from West Central Alabama by: Colonel William R. Morales, USAF (ret.) notes on page 465 - John W. Brooks, age 22 Pvt Muster Roll of Nov-Dec, "Left on march from Charleston to Knoxville, Tenn." There is no further mention of him in the census, or anywhere else. He never returned home so must have died from his illiness. His Confederate war record is 9 muster cards, the final one dated Nov-Dec 1863.
In the 1870 Mississippi census his wife, Margaret Crofs Pollard Brooks is married to Nathaniel Humphreys, with her two children by John W. Brooks.
John W Brooks joined the Confederate service on 22 March 1862 at Fayette County, AL, along with four brothers-in-law, Wiley B Pollard, Luallen G Pollard, Latimore M. Pollard, Corp Henry W Stokes, and William H Pratt, in Company B, 41st Alabama Infantry. John appears on company muster roll for 22 March 1862 to 30 June 1862. He served in the Battle of Stone's River and the Battle of Chickamauga. CSA Records indicate he became very ill in late December, 1863, "left sick on march from Charleston to Knoxville".
From "The 41st Alabama Infantry Regiment CSA", A Narrative History of A Civil War Regiment from West Central Alabama by: Colonel William R. Morales, USAF (ret.) notes on page 465 - John W. Brooks, age 22 Pvt Muster Roll of Nov-Dec, "Left on march from Charleston to Knoxville, Tenn." There is no further mention of him in the census, or anywhere else. He never returned home so must have died from his illiness. His Confederate war record is 9 muster cards, the final one dated Nov-Dec 1863.
In the 1870 Mississippi census his wife, Margaret Crofs Pollard Brooks is married to Nathaniel Humphreys, with her two children by John W. Brooks.
Family Bible record transcript from John R Pollard June 2007 handed down from Barbara Pollard Stokes via Geneva Bell Stokes. See father-in-law John W Pollard FindAGrave 248287499 notes.
John W Brooks joined the Confederate service on 22 March 1862 at Fayette County, AL, along with four brothers-in-law, Wiley B Pollard, Luallen G Pollard, Latimore M. Pollard, Corp Henry W Stokes, and William H Pratt, in Company B, 41st Alabama Infantry. John appears on company muster roll for 22 March 1862 to 30 June 1862. He served in the Battle of Stone's River and the Battle of Chickamauga. CSA Records indicate he became very ill in late December, 1863, "left sick on march from Charleston to Knoxville".
From "The 41st Alabama Infantry Regiment CSA", A Narrative History of A Civil War Regiment from West Central Alabama by: Colonel William R. Morales, USAF (ret.) notes on page 465 - John W. Brooks, age 22 Pvt Muster Roll of Nov-Dec, "Left on march from Charleston to Knoxville, Tenn." There is no further mention of him in the census, or anywhere else. He never returned home so must have died from his illiness. His Confederate war record is 9 muster cards, the final one dated Nov-Dec 1863.
In the 1870 Mississippi census his wife, Margaret Crofs Pollard Brooks is married to Nathaniel Humphreys, with her two children by John W. Brooks.
John W Brooks joined the Confederate service on 22 March 1862 at Fayette County, AL, along with four brothers-in-law, Wiley B Pollard, Luallen G Pollard, Latimore M. Pollard, Corp Henry W Stokes, and William H Pratt, in Company B, 41st Alabama Infantry. John appears on company muster roll for 22 March 1862 to 30 June 1862. He served in the Battle of Stone's River and the Battle of Chickamauga. CSA Records indicate he became very ill in late December, 1863, "left sick on march from Charleston to Knoxville".
From "The 41st Alabama Infantry Regiment CSA", A Narrative History of A Civil War Regiment from West Central Alabama by: Colonel William R. Morales, USAF (ret.) notes on page 465 - John W. Brooks, age 22 Pvt Muster Roll of Nov-Dec, "Left on march from Charleston to Knoxville, Tenn." There is no further mention of him in the census, or anywhere else. He never returned home so must have died from his illiness. His Confederate war record is 9 muster cards, the final one dated Nov-Dec 1863.
In the 1870 Mississippi census his wife, Margaret Crofs Pollard Brooks is married to Nathaniel Humphreys, with her two children by John W. Brooks.
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