Individual Details

Military

Company B, Regiment 38, Alabama Confederate
Prisoner captured by the 1st Brigade, 2d Cavalry Division during month of April 1865, (Report dated Hdqrs, 1st Brig., 2d Cav. Div.m, Macon, Ga., April 30 1865). occupation Teamster on 31 July 1863.
Registered as patient in Ocmulgee Hospital, Macon, Ga. Admitted March 20 1865 with Syphilis, returned to duty 29 April 1865, residence Wilcot County, Paroled
Each man in Company B enlisted for three years or the war. They enlisted at Lower Peach Tree, Wilcox County, Alabama on March 29, 1862 and were paid a $50 bonus for signing.
38th Infantry Regiment was organized at Mobile, Alabama, in May, 1862, and remained there until February, 1863. Men of this command were raised in the counties of Clarke, Washington, Conecuh, Mobile, Wilcox, and Fayette. It was assigned to Clayton's, then Holtzclaw's Brigade, and took an active part in the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Nashville. Transferred to the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, it suffered many hardships defending Spanish Fort. The regiment lost thirty-seven percent of the 490 engaged at Chickamauga, reported 214 casualties at Chattanooga, and totalled 272 men and 71 arms in December, 1863. During the Atlanta Campaign, May 7-27, it lost 12 killed, 88 wounded, and 24 missing, had 236 fit for duty in November, 1864, and surrendered about 80 on May 4, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Charles T. Ketchum and A.R. Lankford, Lieutenant Colonel W.J. Hearin, and Major Origen S. Jewett.

Marriage

performed by Minister of Gospel J. J. Cobb

Death

Birth: Nov. 24, 1840
Death: Aug. 17, 1929
Spouse:
Sarah Caves Brewer (1843 - 1884)
Children:
Infant Son Brewer*
Inscription: Pvt John Wesley Brewer, Co C, 3 Ala Cav, C.S.A.
Burial: Bell - Brewer Cemetery, Clarke County, Alabama, USA