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GENEALOGICAL
NOTES AND ANECDOTES
JOHN CALHOUN
COX:
FIFTH TEXAS REGIMENT,
HOOD'S BRIGADE
SERVICE RECORD
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John Calhoun COX enlisted in
Company C ("Leon Hunters") of the Fifth
Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade, at the rank of
third corporal. On 1 January 1862, he resigned as
third corporal. On 1 March 1862, he was appointed
fifth sergeant. He was promoted, on 1 July 1862,
to fourth sergeant. On 26 April 1863, he was
promoted to first sergeant. He was wounded at
Second Manassas (Second Battle of Bull Run, 30
August 1862), Sharpsburg (Antietam, 17 September
1862), and — while advancing with the flag,
during the last charge at sundown — at
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J.
C. Cox
3 cpl.,
Co C,
5 Reg’t Texas Infantry
Appears on Company
Muster Roll of the organization
named above,
for July
11 to Aug. 31,
1861
Enlisted:
When - July
11, 1861
Where - Centreville,
Tex., Leon Co.
By Whom - D.
M. Whaley
Period: For
the War
Last paid:
By whom -
To what time -
Present or absent: Present
Remarks:
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J.
C. Cox
Pvt. Co. C, 5
Reg’t Tex
Appears on a Register
of
Chimborazo Hospital
No. 4,
Richmond, Virginia
Disease: Pneumonia
Admitted: Dec.
3, 1861
Returned to duty: Feb.
12, 1862
Confederate Archives,
Chapter 6, File No. 22, page 11
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J.
C. Cox
Sgt.,
Co C,
5 Reg’t Texas Infantry
Appears on Company
Muster Roll of the organization
named above,
for Mar.
& Apl.,
1862
Enlisted:
When - July
11, 1861
Where - Centreville,
Texas
By Whom - Capt.
D. M. Whaley
Period - For
the War
Last paid:
By whom - Capt.
J. H. Littlefield
To what time - Mar.
6, 1862
Present or absent: Present
Remarks: Appointed
from the ranks 5 Sgt., in place
of J. D. Moore, resigned Mar. 1,
1862
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Capt. (eventually, Major) James Harvey
Littlefield was the quartermaster of the
Fifth Texas Regiment, appointed 31 October 1861.
He was born 25 August 1832 in Vevay, Switzerland
County, Indiana and died 6 June 1901 in New York
City. He was married to Mary Eliza McGown (22
February 1834, Rutherford County, Tennessee - 1
August 1895, Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas) on
28 September 1857. He and his wife are both
interred in Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas. Of
James Harvey Littlefield, the following notice
has been preserved:
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Hillsboro July 13, 1886Editor,
Hillsboro Reflector
I see my old friend, Major Littlefield
is before the coming state Democratic
Convention for Comptroller. Having known
the Major for more than 75 years and
under the most trying circumstances and
in the most responsible of both a soldier
and citizen. It affords me pleasure to
say, that for that length of time at
least, he has ever been true to every
trust committed to his keeping. In the
army as the Quarter Master of Hood's
Brigade, he was always at his post and at
the sound of the "long roll"
would always pack his papers and office
fixtures and leave them in the care of an
orderly and gathering a musket push to
the front, where he was ever found in the
thickest of the fight. He was faithful to
the last. laying down his sword at
Appomattox with the immortal Lee, as a
paroled prisoner he returned to the
embrace of his young and lovely family,
accepting the situation in good faith. He
entered the civil walks of life with that
same heroic devotion to principle that
had act uated him in his career as a
soldier. He stands today before the
people of Texas as an embodiment of all
that is true and noble. He is a man both
by nature and acquirements, eminently
fitted for the position he seeks. The
suffrage of the convention could not be
more worthily bestowed than on Major J. H
. Littlefield.
J. W. S.
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James Harvey Litlefield was the grandfather of
Lucien Lovell Littlelfield (16 June 1895,
Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas - 4 June 1960,
Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California), the
motion-picture actor. Lucien Lovell Littlefield
was the son of Thomas Enos Littlefield (25 July
1858 - 21 September 1899) and Cora Josephine
Parker, who were married 14 June 1883 in Dallas,
Dallas County, Texas.
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J.
C. Cox
4 Sgt.,
Co C,
5 Reg’t Texas Infantry
Appears on Company
Muster Roll of the organization
named above,
for July
& Aug.
1862
Enlisted:
When - July
11, 1861
Where - Centreville,
Texas
By Whom - Capt.
D. M. Whaley
Period - For
the War
Last paid:
By whom- Capt.
J. H. Littlefield
To what time - June
30, 1862
Present or absent: Present
Remarks: Wounded
in battle Aug. 30
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J.
C. Cox
4 Sgt., Co C,
5 Reg’t Texas Infantry
Appears on Company
Muster Roll of the organization
named above,
for Sept. & Oct.
1862
Enlisted:
When - July
11, 1861
Where - Centreville,
Texas
By Whom - Capt.
D. M. Whaley
Period - For
the War
Last paid:
By whom - Capt.
Littlefield
To what time - Aug.
31, 1862
Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Wounded
in Battle of Sharpsburg,
M’d., Sept. 17th.
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Confederate
Wounded at Sharpsburg, 17 September 1862
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The
Confederate States, Dr.
To: J.
C. Cox, Sgt., Co. C., 5 Texas, C.
S. Army
For Monthly Pay, from July
1 1862 to August
31 1862
being 2
months at 17
per month . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Clothing . . . . . . .
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 25
Bounty . . . . . . . .
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 50
 109
Deduct due . . . . . .
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.50
Amount paid . . . . .
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.50
I certify that I have
endorsed this Payment on J.
C. Cox’s
Descriptive Roll.
/s/ John
Ambler
Received, Richmond
this 8
day of Oct.
1862
from Maj.
John Ambler
Quartermaster C. S. Army, the sum
of
One hundred &
one 50/100
Dollars
being the amount and
in full of the above account.
Witness,
[Signed Duplicates]
/s/ John C.
Cox
paid on card 1654, 8
October 1862
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Maj.
John Ambler was paymaster, for soldiers'
accounts, in the Quartermaster's Department of
the Confederate States Army. His office was in
Richmond, Virginia, over the Engine House
(formerly Blues' Armory) and its entrance was on
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J.
C. Cox
4 Sgt.,
Co C,
5 Reg’t Texas Infantry
Appears on Company
Muster Roll of the organization
named above,
for Nov.
& Dec.,
1862
Enlisted:
When - July
11, 1862
Where - Centreville,
Texas
By Whom - Capt.
D. M. Whaley
Period - For
the War
Last paid:
By whom -
To what time - Aug.
31, 1862
Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Wounded
at Sharpsburg & absent on
sick furlough. Date and duration
not known.
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J.
C. Cox
1 Sgt.,
Co C,
5 Reg’t Texas Infantry
Appears on Company
Muster Roll of the organization
named above,
for Mar.
& Apl. 1863
Enlisted:
When - July
11, 1861
Where - Centreville,
Texas
By Whom - Capt.
Whaley
Period: For
the War
Last paid:
By whom - Maj.
Ambler
To what time - Aug.
31, 1862
Present or absent: Present
Remarks: Promoted
from 3rd Sgt. to 1st Sgt., April
26, 1863
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J.
C. Cox
1st Sgt.,
Co C,
5 Reg’t Texas Infantry
Appears on Company
Muster Roll of the organization
named above,
for Sept.
& Oct.,
1863
Enlisted:
When - July
11, 1861
Where - Centreville,
Texas
By Whom - Capt.
Whaley
Period: For
the War
Last paid:
By whom - Capt.
Norwood
To what time - Aug.
31, 1863
Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Wounded
in battle of Chickamauga, Ga.,
Sept. 20, 63
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Capt. Norwood was
was Walter N. Norwood,
quartermaster officer of Hood's Texas Brigade.
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J.
C. Cox
1st. Sgt.,
Co C,
5 Reg’t Texas Infantry
Appears on Company
Muster Roll of the organization
named above,
for Nov.
& Dec.,
1863
Enlisted:
When - July
11, 1861
Where - Centreville,
Texas
By Whom - Capt.
Whaley
Period - For
the War
Last paid:
By whom - Capt.
Norwood
To what time - Aug.
31, 1863
Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Wounded
in battle of Chickamauga, Sept.
20, '63 & furloughed Oct. 6,
'63.
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Certificate of
Disability
for Discharge
in the case of
J. C. Cox
Co. C 5 Tex Regt.
Infantry
O. P. S. Atlanta
Ga.
Decr. 7th 1863
Approved and
respectfully forwarded
/s/ J.
P. Logan
Sr. Surgeon in
chf.
Office
Mis<s>i<ssippi>
Divi<sion> Hosp<ita>l
Atlanta Dec 7 63
Approved and
respectfully forwarded
/s/ illegible
Mis<s>i<ssippi>
Divi<sion> Hosp<ita>l
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Subsequently, J. P. Logan was senior
surgeon at the Post Hospital in Augusta, Georgia.
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Register
of Payments to Discharged
Soldiers
John C. Cox
Sergt. Co. C 5 Tex
Inf.
Date of Discharge: Dec.
14, 1863
Date of Payment: Jan.
15, 1864
By whom: J.
G. Michaeloffsky
Confederate Archives,
Chapter 5, File No. 111, page 88.
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Maj. J. G.
Michaeloffsky was the officer of the
quartermaster corps who was stationed at Macon,
Georgia. Among others, it was he whose
resposibility it was to authorise funds by which
to sustain the notorious Camp Sumter, at
Andersonville, Georgia. Thus:
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April 11, 1864 Captain and
Quartermaster Richard B. Winder writes
Major and Macon, Georgia, Quartermaster
J. G. Michaeloffsky, asking why a load of
lumber expected by rail from Macon 12
days ago has not arrived, threatening to
report the matter to Richmond if the
needed lumber is not sent to
Andersonville immediately.
April 14, 1864
Quatermaster Richard B. Winder
complains for a second time to Major and
Macon, Georgia, Quartermaster J. G.
Michaeloffsky that lumber must be sent as
soon as possible, explaining that the
shortage of lumber is so great on post
that buildings cannot be constructed, and
the dead are being buried without
coffins.
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J.
C. Cox
1st
Sgt., Co C,
5 Reg’t Texas Infantry
Appears
on Company Muster Roll of the
organization named above,
for Nov.
& Dec.,
1864
Enlisted:
When - July
11, 1861
Where -
Centerville,
Tex
By Whom
- Capt.
Whaley
Period
- For the War
Last
paid:
By whom
- Capt. Norwood
To what
time - Aug.
31, 1863
Present
or absent: Absent
Remarks:
On wounded
furlough since Oct. 6 / 63.
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To
see a fragment of the battle flag
which John Calhoun COX carried at Chickamauga, go to John Calhoun Cox: Battle Flag
of the Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade.
To
see the badge of identification
("dog tag," so to speak) which John Calhoun Cox
wore on the battlefields, go to John Calhoun Cox: Texas Star.
For the system of kinship to which John Calhoun Cox
belonged, see Descendants
of John Cox (1 November 1727 - ABT 1804/05).
RETURN: John Calhoun Cox
(2 January 1836 - 19 February 1917) Fifth Texas Regiment,
Hood's Brigade (2)
RETURN: John Calhoun Cox (2 January 1836 - 19
February 1917) Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade (1)
RETURN: John
Calhoun Cox: Texas Star
RETURN: John
Calhoun Cox: Battle Flag of the Fifth Texas Regiment,
Hood's Brigade
RETURN: John
Calhoun Cox: Southern Cross of Honor
RETURN: Antecedents and Descendants of John Cox
(1 November 1727 - ABT 1804/05)
RETURN: John Dennis Stell: The Texas Secession
Convention
RETURN: John Dennis Stell: Texas Ordinance of
Secession
RETURN: John Dennis Stell: Address to the People
of Texas
RETURN: Major
David M. Whaley: Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade
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