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John Thomas Wakenight

Name: John Thomas Wakenight

Affiliation: Confederate

Unit: "Davis'" Battalion of MD Cav.; 1st MD Cav.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Funkstown, Washington County, MD

Enlistment Date: 05/03/1864

Company: A ("Davis's Cav.); G (1st Cav.)

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Pardoned in Frederick, MD; Entered Old Soldiers' Home, Richmond, VA on 7/13/1927 and died there on 8/6/1927


Source(s):

Robert J. Driver, Jr., First and Second Maryland Cavalry, C.S.A. (Charlottesville, VA: Rockbridge Publishing ([an imprint of Howell Press, Inc.], 1999), 296; Daniel D. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1986), 296; Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998).

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