JOHN S. WALLACE

Battery "H" 1st West Virginia Light Artillery

Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty

Service Record: At age 18, joined for duty & enrolled at Wheeling on Aug. 18, 1863 to serve for six months; mustered in at Wheeling on Sep 24, 1863. He re-enlisted for 3 years at Stone Fort, Md. on Jan. 3, 1864; mustered in on Jan. 4, 1864 at Maryland Heights, Md. “Born in Marshall County.” “Residence, Marshall County West Va. 1st Dist.” “Died in U.S. Gen’l Hosp. Wheeling, W.Va. April 10, 1864.” “Death from measles at Wheeling, West Virginia April 13th 1864.”

The W.Va. death record says he died of Pneumonia. His father, Benjamin E. Wallace, applied for a pension in 1881; no certificate issued. The soldier was possibly “Santifer Wallis,” also found as Sandifer J., a son of Benjamin E. & Jane (Hutchinson) Wallace in the 1850 census of Wetzel County. Jane died about 1852 and the father remarried in 1856. Sandifer was age 2 in 1850, indicating he overstated his age in order to serve.

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