Genealogie Wylie » John Thomas Aldridge (± 1840-1863)

Persönliche Daten John Thomas Aldridge 

• Er wurde geboren rund 1840 in Greene, North Carolina.
• (JOHN ) .
• Er ist verstorben am 27. November 1863 in Payne's Farm, Virginia.
• Ein Kind von Thomas Aldridge und Mary Edmundson
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 5. Juli 2003.

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John wrote cheerful letters back home to his invalid sister. He tried to spare his mother when his brother, Jim, was ill with typhoid fever. However, when he was ordered to march he sent for his mother to come and care for him. When Jim had recovered, he joined John and fought in the battle of Chancellorsville.

Jim was taller and was a little in advance of his brother, John, so he knew when his brother was struck. He kept on and the Confederates carried the breastwork. Afterwards, he ran back with other comrades, "Dig a hole, wrap his blanket about him and mark the grave. When I go home I shall take him too. "

After the battle of Gettysburg, John Thomas was sent to a Richmond hospital. He wrote his mother and she came to take her dead son home. John Thomas left his hospital bed, seized a negro and cart, for which he paid an enormous sum, and went back to the gravesite. John had taken a coffin from Richmond with him, and after he had put the body of Jim into the baggage car and started back from Chancellorsville, the Yankees attacked the train and cut it apart destroying part of the track. This delayed the arrival of the coffin for about 24 hours, but finally the younger brother's body was restored to his mother, and John started her home. "I'll take you both, my boy", she said to John. "I'll put a substitue in your place". "No mother", he said, "My country calls and I must go. No substitute can fill my place. I shall never stop fighting till I have avenged the death of my brother, and drive the yankees from our homes".

Later orders came to "March" and John marched to his death. The fight was at Germanias Ford. The Confederates had to retreat. He was one of those who were the last to go. He received a wound in his side. Calling to Lieutenant Bryan of Greene County to assist him, he had his knapsack cut from his back and with his hand pressed on the wound, he overtook a few of his own company. A retreating Virginia regiment transported him in a blanket and poles to the hospital. Before leaving he took a portfolio containing his letters and other things to give a comrade to take to his mother saying "Send these to my mother and I know it will kill her". John died a short time later.

His mother and sister, Louisa, brought his body home to be buried in Jason Township behind the home of Press P. Pate.

Thomas served in the Confederate Army and died at Payne's Farm on November 27, 1863. Recorded in THE HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY by James M. Creech John Thomas Aldridge volunteered at Snow Hill, Greene County, in the Company commanded by Captain Drysdale. This company helped defend New Bern and afterwards became part of the Third North Carolina Infantry Regiment CSA and went to Virginia.

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