John Wesley Alcorn

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Husband John Wesley Alcorn ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1841 3
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           Died: 18 Sep 1864 - Andersonville, Sumter Co, GA 3
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         Father: William Alcorn (1805-1842) 1 4 5
         Mother: Rebecca Benn (1816-1844) 1 5

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General Notes: Husband - John Wesley Alcorn

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He enlisted on Sept. 8, 1862, in the Union Army and was taken prisoner at Brandy Station, Culpepper, Virginia, after a fierce battle in which Union Generals Kilpatrick and Custer bravely led their surrounded cavalry against Stuart's Confederate Cavalry. He died of scorbutus and diarrhea on Sept. 18, 1864, in the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, and is buried in Andersonville National Cemetery in grave #9150, Section H.

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 567.

2 Earl Prather, The Alcorn Family in Northwestern Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1997), Pg 3.

3 Earl Prather, The Alcorn Family in Northwestern Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1997), Pg 66.

4 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 590.

5 Earl M. Prather, Alcorn Family Genealogy (Centerville, PA: Self-published, 2003), Pg 1.