Name: MURPHY, JOHN
Rank: Private
Enlisted: 3 March 1862 at Westville, Dale County, Alabama; Age 22
Service History:  Absent sick: Winchester, Va. 1862/05/25; Cross Keys, Va. 1862/06/08; Cold Harbor, 1862/06/27; Malvern Hill, 1862/07/02; Cedar Mt., Va. 1862/08/09; Hazel River, 1862/08/23; Manassas Junction, 1862/08/27; Manassas Plains, 1862/08/27,28,29,30; Chantilly, Va. 1862/09/01; Harpers Ferry, 1862/09/13; Shepards Town, 1862/09/19; Fredericksburg, 1862/12/13. Present: Sharpsburg, 1862/09/17; Suffolk, Va. 1863/05/03; Gettysburg 1863/07/02; Battle Mt. 1863/07/24; Chickamauga, Ga. 1863/09/19, Severely Wounded: Chickamauga, Ga. 1863/09/20. Retired at Richmond, Va. of Wound, 1864/12/01.
Date of Birth: abt 1837	Place of Birth: Georgia
Date of Death:	Place of Death:
Buried:
Father: // Murphy (d bef 1860)
Mother: Clementine Ward (b abt 1814 in South Carolina)
Spouse(s): Single in 1860
Children:
Occupation: Farm laborer
Residence(s): Dale County, Alabama; ADAH record shows residence as High Bluff
Other: Brother of Richard Murphy and Thomas Murphy
Photographs:
Submitter: Georgia V. Fleming	E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net