Company F
48th Virginia Infantry


Kilgore Fort House, Copper Creek, Scott Co. Va.
Sketch by Andrew Bond, August 1996

John McCracken

Final Rank: Pvt.

1860 Census: Laborer, Washington Co., age 21

Enlistment: Washington Co., age 23, 6/15/61

Present thru 10/15/61. Reenlistment leave 2/13/62 thu 3/31/62. Courtmartialed, confined Lynchburg, by 6/1/64 when assigned to Ward's Battalion CSA prisoners. For service in defense of city, pardoned by Presidential order and released to unit 7/30/64. Present 10/31/64 thru 12/31/64. Living, age 74, Washington Co., 1910.


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