He was noble and brave, and when he was killed, Company H was without an officer then commanding.

Every single officer had been killed, wounded, or captured.

John served as a private soldier the first year of the war, and at the reorganization at Corinth, Mississippi, he, W.J.Whitthorne and myself all ran for orderly sergeant of Company H, and John was elected, and the first vacancy occurring after the death of Captain Webster, he was commissioned brevet second lieutenant.

When the war broke out, John was clerking for John L.& T.S.Brandon, in Columbia.

He had been in every march, skirmish, and battle that had been fought during the war.