Wednesday, February 27, 2013

John Wesley Taylor, Class of 1860

Taylor was a teacher in Rockingham County, VA, at the beginning of the war. He enlisted as a private in Co. F of the 2nd Virginia Infantry on April 16, 1862. Taylor was reported as a deserter from his regiment on June 15, 1862 at Port Republic, Rockingham County, VA. He was arrested on March 8, 1863 and detailed to work in an iron foundry, where he remained at least through April 1864, when the records end.

After the war, he returned to teaching in Rockingham County, an occupation he was still practicing in 1910. He died on November 22, 1922 and is buried in Lacey Springs Cemetery in Rockingham County, VA.

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