John James Burleson

John J. served in the Civil War. He filed for Confederate Pension in Eastland Co., TX. # 29504. BURLESON, John J. (22)- Born: About 1839, Marion County, Alabama; POW, Fort Donelson, Tennessee, February 16, 1862-sent to Camp Douglas, Illinois; exchanged at Vicksburg, September 20, 1862; present, rolls dated August 1, 1862, October 31, 1862, December 31, 1862, January-February, 1863, March 1, 1863-June 30, 1863; (w), Raymond, Mississippi, May 12, 1863, severe; present, July-August, 1863; (w), Chickamauga, September 19, 1863-in hospital, unknown; present, November-December, 1863, January-April, 1864; surrendered & paroled, Company B, Granbury's Consolidated Brigade, Greensboro, NC, April 26, 1865. Burleson was approved for pension #29504 in September, 1914. He gave his age as 75, and his residence as Gorman, Eastland County. Giving depositions in his case were A.G. Anderson, age 76, and A.L. (Gus) Burleson, age 78, both of Freestone County and formerly of Company G. Stated Anderson: "I have known John J. Burleson...for over fifty years. We soldiered together, joined the same company, and served during the Civil War together. I knew him before the war broke out, generally saw him in Fairfield, Texas, and knew where he lived. He was a farmer. By reason of wounds, I was in the hospital a great deal of the time, was in prison 8 or 9 months, but when I returned to the Company at all and every time, John J. Burleson was conspicuously present, and was performing the duties of a soldier...I will here take pleasure in stating that no truer soldier or braver man, ever enlisted in the Confederate service...he was brave and true, from start to finish, and was as brave and gallant soldier as ever enlisted and served in the Confederate service, and to which every member of our company and regiment, and even brigade, if now living, would testify to the same." Burleson died on November 13, 1922, in Big Spring, Texas, and is buried in Oakland Cemetery, Comanche County, Texas. John and Martha never had children. He is listed on the Comanche Co., TX. Census as Farmer Laborer. On the 1900 Comanche Co., Texas Census, Myrtle Scott being the age of 17 ( who would later become the spouse of James Walter Burleson) was residing in the home of John and Martha. It is unclear what the connection was to the family at this time.

	More About JOHN JAMES BURLESON: Burial: Unknown, Oakland Cemetery, Duster Community, Comanche County Texas