Company I , 34th Mississippi Volunteers, CSA
John Henderson Freeman was born 31 Dec 1832 in Wake Co., NC, the son of Levington Allen Freeman and Tabitha Watkins. He married Mary Francis Waldrip in DeSoto Co., MS in 1859. John Henderson Freeman's military records from the National Archives show that he was captured by Federal troops on November 24, 1863. His name appears on Roll of Prisoners of War in both Louisville, KY and Rock Island Barracks, IL. He was paroled at Memphis, TN May 25, 1865. He kept a diary during the Civil War and sent it home just three days before he was captured. This diary is online and can be seen at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mruddy/freeman.htm
John Henderson Freeman died 23 June 1913 in Brinkley, Monroe Co., AR and is buried there in Oaklawn Cemetery. An inscription on his tombstone reads: He died as he lived, a Christian.
Company I , 34th Mississippi Volunteers, CSA
John Henderson Freeman was born 31 Dec 1832 in Wake Co., NC, the son of Levington Allen Freeman and Tabitha Watkins. He married Mary Francis Waldrip in DeSoto Co., MS in 1859. John Henderson Freeman's military records from the National Archives show that he was captured by Federal troops on November 24, 1863. His name appears on Roll of Prisoners of War in both Louisville, KY and Rock Island Barracks, IL. He was paroled at Memphis, TN May 25, 1865. He kept a diary during the Civil War and sent it home just three days before he was captured. This diary is online and can be seen at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mruddy/freeman.htm
John Henderson Freeman died 23 June 1913 in Brinkley, Monroe Co., AR and is buried there in Oaklawn Cemetery. An inscription on his tombstone reads: He died as he lived, a Christian.
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