NF Anybody read?

[gary]

John O'Brien's Things Grew Beautifully Worse: The Wartime Experiences of Captain John O'Brien, 30th Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A.? If so, can you summarize where he served? It's his record and not the unit tha I'm interested in.

Edit: corrected spelling

 

[bdtex]

John O'Brian's Things Grew Beautifully Worse: The Wartime Experiences of Captain John O'Brien, 30th Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A.? If so, can you summarize where he served? It's his record and not the unit tha I'm interested in.

I found no record of him in fold3 or the NPS Soldiers & Sailors Database.

 

[gary]

thanks for looking. Found his image at the LOC and it says he was captured. Certainly he was, but the 30th Arkansas wasn't at Port Hudson. Edmonds has a person of that name at PH but he was a Yankee.

 

[DixieRifles]

O'Brian or O'Brien ??

 

[gary]

O'Brien

 

[Nathan Stuart]

Looks like Capt. John O'Brien may have officially belonged to Co. F, 25th AR Infantry. (Due to combining units, the 25th AR Infantry was temporarily designated as the 30th AR Infantry during '62 and at Murfreesboro, but reverted to its original name again soon after this engagement).

Reading between the lines here. Am guessing that O'Brien was captured at, or shortly after, Murfreesboro. This might explain why he more readily identified with the name of the 30th AR (not 25th AR) as his unit, for the purpose of his writings.

 

[gary]

Got his book and he's a different O'Brien than the one at Port Hudson. The one you mentioned Nathan Suart was at Murfreesboro where he was injured and became a guest of the Union. Most of the book is about his three years in prison.