Stacey, Please understand I'm not finished with this biography as of yet, but it is in rough draft form and should lead you in the right direction. There may also be some errors as I have not checked for them as of yet. Just too many bio's going on at Chase. LOL

George, yes to answer your question at the bottom of page 14 in John W. Black's CMSR if you look very closely you will see his age is listed as 21 in 1864. The cross over is painfully obvious to me but then again I've been looking at CMSR's for many years.

Corporal John W. BLACK - Inscription on tombstone #1721 reads “Corp. J. W. Black Co. H 17 ALA. REG. C.S.A.” He was taken prisoner as a result of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign in Tennessee. The 1850 United States census as found on www.ancestry.com listed “John W. Black, age six, born about 1844, living in the household of John and Mary A. Black in Monroe County, Alabama. John W. Black was listed as born in Alabama and his father John Black, age 34, born about 1816 was listed as born in North Carolina.” The 1860 United States census as found on www.familysearch.org listed “John Black, age sixteen, born about 1844 and born in Alabama living in the household of John Black who was born in North Carolina, and living in Monroe County, Alabama and listed the nearest Post Office as Burnt Corn and listed the sixteen year old, John Black as a laborer. According to the Confederate Compiled Military Service Records, interestingly “both father and son joined Company H of the 17th Regiment, Alabama Infantry on October 25, 1861 and the father entered as a private while his son, J. W. Black was either elected or appointed as a 3rd corporal.” www.familysearch.org listed “many of the soldiers in Company H coming from Monroe County, Alabama.” Also the compiler notes that the Confederate Compiled Military Service Records as found on www.fold3.com are noted as a cross over. A cross over is where other soldiers records are found in another soldiers service records. In this case the father John Black has his discharge papers listed in his son’s service records as found on page 16. The 17th Regiment, Alabama Infantry was at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee April 6th and 7th 1862 and at least seven members of the regiment were wounded and taken prisoners to Cincinnati, Ohio where they died and were reinterred at the Camp Chase Cemetery in 1869. Confederate Compiled Military Service Records reported the father, John Black, age 46, discharged on May 26, 1862 for disability. Federal POW records reported “Sergeant John W. Black wounded at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee on November 30, 1864.” The compiler notes that on all POW records his rank is listed as a sergeant. With a lack of Confederate Compiled Military Service Records especially within the State of Alabama it is difficult to confirm his rank. The Confederate wounded as well as Federal wounded were left behind at Franklin, Tennessee after the battle. The Confederate army then moved northward and was soundly defeated at the battle of Nashville, Tennessee on December 15th and 16th 1864. With the Union army in pursuit of the Confederate army after the battle of Nashville the Union army was able to occupy Franklin, Tennessee again on December on December 19, 1864. Federal POW records reported Sergeant John W. Black taken prisoner on December 19, 1864 and transferred to the United State Army General Hospital #1 at Nashville, Tennessee and admitted on December 26, 1864 for a wound in his right thigh and reported his age as twenty-one and was forwarded to the Provost Marshal on March 7, 1865 and taken to Louisville, Kentucky and then forwarded to Camp Chase where he arrived on March 12, 1865. On Monday March 20, 1865, a plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct President Lincoln was ruined when Lincoln failed to show up at the location of the appointed ambush in Washington, D.C. and at Camp Chase federal POW records reported the death of Sergeant John W. Black on Monday, March 20, 1865 due to pneumonia.