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Note: In the 1850 Lincoln County, Tennessee census, John was living with Joseph Clark, age 59, born in Virginia, a merchant, and his wife Jane, age 50, also born in Virginia.
The 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment was organised 29th March A.D. 1862 in Shelby Springs to serve for three years or the duration of the war. Company D was from Jefferson County. Camp Winn, a large military training camp was located in Shelby Springs. The 28th Infantry remained there until mid-April. They marched through Selma arriving on the 15th and moved on to Mobile where they remained until the 19th, then departed on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad. They were organised too late to participate in the Battle of Shiloh, but joined General Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard in Corinth, Mississippi, arriving on the 21st April. Duties consisted of fortifying, flooring tents and building breastworks. Picket duty was performed about every two to three days. Because of unsanitary conditions at Corinth many fell victims to diseases in the camp, especially chronic diarrhoea and dysentery, and were sent to nearby Okolona, where Rose Gates College was used as a hospital. It was a three-story building with about a dozen rude wards surrounding it. Several churches were also used for the same purpose, and a number of soldiers were cared for in private homes. The 28th Alabama first came under fire while on picket duty on 9th May 1862; two men were reported killed during a Yankee advance near Farmington, six or seven miles from Corinth. I do not know the exact cause of Uncle John's death. He may be buried in the Okolona Confederate Cemetery. His widow, Martha Adaline Thurston nee Neaves, filed a pension claim on 27th November 1862, in care of John C. Morrow of Elyton, Alabama.
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