Enlisted in Company G (Chatham Boys), 26th North Carolina infantry in Chatham County at the age of 27 on June 10, 1861. He was present or accounted for until he was discharged on August 20, 1861. The reason he was discharged was not reported. He reenlisted in the company on March 6, 1862 and was present or accounted for until he deserted on March 29, 1863. He was reported under arrest in May-June 1863 and returned to duty prior to July 1, 1863 when he was wounded in the leg and captured at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His leg was amputated and he died in the hands of the enemy. Federal records indicate that he died July 15, 1863. His remains were disinterred in the 1870s and forwarded to North Carolina for burial in the Rocky River Friends Church Cemetery that his family attended in Siler City.
Emily Jane Pike Brown told my mother-in-law, her granddaughter, an account of the last time she saw her father. Being Quaker he didn't believe in fighting/killing. He hid out in the fields or woods when the soldiers came. They tortured her mother by crossing her thumbs and placing them between the rails on the fence. They then bounced on the fence smashing her thumbs. John couldn't stand it and came out. The last time Emily saw him he was being "escorted" away. I don't know if Emily knew or remembered him leaving other times or of his official military record, but the memory of the torture her Mother went through and her Father never returning stuck.
Emily Jane Pike Brown told my mother-in-law, her granddaughter, an account of the last time she saw her father. Being Quaker he didn't believe in fighting/killing. He hid out in the fields or woods when the soldiers came. They tortured her mother by crossing her thumbs and placing them between the rails on the fence. They then bounced on the fence smashing her thumbs. John couldn't stand it and came out. The last time Emily saw him he was being "escorted" away. I don't know if Emily knew or remembered him leaving other times or of his official military record, but the memory of the torture her Mother went through and her Father never returning stuck.
Enlisted in Company G (Chatham Boys), 26th North Carolina infantry in Chatham County at the age of 27 on June 10, 1861. He was present or accounted for until he was discharged on August 20, 1861. The reason he was discharged was not reported. He reenlisted in the company on March 6, 1862 and was present or accounted for until he deserted on March 29, 1863. He was reported under arrest in May-June 1863 and returned to duty prior to July 1, 1863 when he was wounded in the leg and captured at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His leg was amputated and he died in the hands of the enemy. Federal records indicate that he died July 15, 1863. His remains were disinterred in the 1870s and forwarded to North Carolina for burial in the Rocky River Friends Church Cemetery that his family attended in Siler City.
Emily Jane Pike Brown told my mother-in-law, her granddaughter, an account of the last time she saw her father. Being Quaker he didn't believe in fighting/killing. He hid out in the fields or woods when the soldiers came. They tortured her mother by crossing her thumbs and placing them between the rails on the fence. They then bounced on the fence smashing her thumbs. John couldn't stand it and came out. The last time Emily saw him he was being "escorted" away. I don't know if Emily knew or remembered him leaving other times or of his official military record, but the memory of the torture her Mother went through and her Father never returning stuck.
Emily Jane Pike Brown told my mother-in-law, her granddaughter, an account of the last time she saw her father. Being Quaker he didn't believe in fighting/killing. He hid out in the fields or woods when the soldiers came. They tortured her mother by crossing her thumbs and placing them between the rails on the fence. They then bounced on the fence smashing her thumbs. John couldn't stand it and came out. The last time Emily saw him he was being "escorted" away. I don't know if Emily knew or remembered him leaving other times or of his official military record, but the memory of the torture her Mother went through and her Father never returning stuck.
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