JOHN DYKE
Transcribed and Submitted by
MARCUS EMITT
DYKE
Age: 22
Rank Entering the Service: Private
Rank Leaving the Service: Sergeant
Military Unit: 62nd Infantry Regiment
Alternate Name for the Military Unit:
Company: I
Enlistment Date: 10 SEP 1862
Place of Enlistment: NEWPORT,TENNESSEE
Abstract of Information available in the Service Records:
Mustered into CO. by Capt.WILLIAM SMITH,SEP.10,1862,NEWPORT,TN;REGT.muster at
Sweetwater,TN,NOV.11,1862,by COL.JOHN ROWAN,for "WAR".DEC.1-31,1862 muster at
MINT SPRING,near VICKSBURG,MISS.present-detailed as a color guard,by order of
COL.ROWAN; JAN/FEB.1863 muster camp near VICKSBURG,MISS. present-detailed as a
color guard by order of COL.ROWAN;MAR/APR. 1863 muster near VICKSBURG,MISS;
present-detailed as a color sergeant by order of COL.ROWAN.On a Roll of POW's
paroled at VICKSBURG,MISS,JULY 4,1863.Parole included in file,signed by
mark,JULY 8,1863.
Personal Information about the Veteran (Not contained in the CMSR):
JOHN HENRY DYKE,Was born in the of 1839,in GREENE COUNTY,TN.one of 11 childern
of HENRY DYKE&ALEY (CHAMBERS)DYKE.Abt:1857-1858 JOHN DYKE married ELIZA
PALMER.ELIZA'S two brothers JASPER&JACOB PALMER also fought beside JOHN
DYKE,in the 62th TN MOUNTED INF.REGT.JOHN'S father, JOHN,ELIZA,AND JASPER are
buried at FOWLER'S GROVE METHODIST CHURCH in COCKE COUNTY,TN abt.10 miles from
NEWPORT,TN.JOHN'S death was abt:1906-1910 according to relatives which have
now passed away to.ps:my great-great grandfather.
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