In 1862, John enlisted as Private in the Virginia Cavalry Regiment and joined the Confederate Army in the Civil War. He was later captured by the Union Army in May of 1864 in Pike County, Kentucky and taken by train to the Rock Island Confederate Prison in Rock Island, Illinois, where he passed away of acute dysentery on July 29, 1864.
CHANEY, JNO. W. PVT
A 22 VA CAV
7/29/64
In 1862, John enlisted as Private in the Virginia Cavalry Regiment and joined the Confederate Army in the Civil War. He was later captured by the Union Army in May of 1864 in Pike County, Kentucky and taken by train to the Rock Island Confederate Prison in Rock Island, Illinois, where he passed away of acute dysentery on July 29, 1864.
CHANEY, JNO. W. PVT
A 22 VA CAV
7/29/64
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