Help with ancestor

[LafayetteCountyDigger]

Hello forum members can y'all help me learn more about my ancestor. His name is John Hardin Perkins and he was a confederate soldier. I know he died in 1902 and had a daughter who lived long her name was Nell Elizabeth Perkins.

 

[Miles Krisman]

What state and county was he living in during the war?

Have you got a date of birth? Parents names?

 

[LafayetteCountyDigger]

He was born in 1836 and I know he died in Mississippi but I don't know if that's here he lived

 

[lupaglupa]

His wife filed a pension application in which she says he was in the 35th MS, Company F. There are records for John H. Perkins in that regiment. He enlisted in April of 1862 at Crawfordville. He was paroled at Vicksburg after the surrender there. He was captured near Nashville December 15, 1864 and sent to Camp Douglas via Louisville. That's the last information for him.

 

[LafayetteCountyDigger]

Thanks I knew he was a pow and was almost starved but the war ended and he walked back to Mississippi

 

[Fairfield]

His grave on Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103725104/john-hardin-perkins The gravestone is wonderful. The hand-shaking is an old cemetery symbol.

Every census record finds him in Mississippi; his father was from Tennessee while his mother was from Mississippi. The 1880 census shows him with 5 children (judging by dates of birth, these may be only the younger ones) and says that he was a farmer.

Obit on Ancestry (source not given):

You should write up his story!

 

[John Hartwell]

John H. Perkins' Military Service Record (22 pages) is attached below. These carded files indicate when he was mentioned on various documents: roll calls, medical or PoW records, etc.