Jeter enlisted on May 12, 1861 as a private in Co. E of the 14th VA Infantry. From August to October of 1861, he was at home with a fever. In April of 1862, he went AWOL, returning to his company prior to the Battle of Seven Pines, where he was wounded on June 1, 1862 and recuperated at home in Mecklenburg County, VA. Jeter was promoted to corporal on September 22, 1862. He was wounded again November 9, 1862 and hospitalized in Richmond, VA on November 11, not returning to his company until March 1863. He did not return from a week-long furlough ending on June 19, 1863 and was again declared AWOL, and was demoted to private upon his return September 26, 1863.
After the war, Jeter moved to Woodford County, Illinois and farmed and became a Methodist minister in Roanoke, IL, where he served as an election clerk in 1874. He abandoned his wife and family prior to 1880 and his later whereabouts are unknown.
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