Location:
Supreme Road
Townley, Walker County, Alabama
33.818954. -87.424713
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24184
Date of Visit: April 18, 2015
James K Polk Manasco
2nd Lieut Co G 56 Ala Cav
Civil War
Feb 27 1845 June 7 1923
Jeremiah Manasco
1 Lieut
Co A 27 Regt Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
Jan 16 1832
May 1 1862
MD
Jeremiah was a son of John Manasco and Lucinda Luster of Walker County, Alabama. He enlisted in the Confederate Army on September 25, 1861 and was elected 1st Lieutenant by Captain Weeden’s Walker County Company. In the company October it was organized into the 22nd Alabama Infantry regiment. The 22nd Alabama was in the line of battle both days in April of 1862 at Shiloh. According to several sources Jeremiah was wounded in the left arm. The wound was so bad that it was necessary to amputate his arm. He was sent home where he died on May 1, 1862.
Several sources stated that Jeremiah was serving as a medical aide to General Albert Sydney Johnston at the time of his death. There is no description of Jeremiah’s wounding reports from the 22nd Alabama found in the Official Record of the War of Rebellion and he does not appear in Johnston’s staff.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at October 31, 2019. (http://www.fold3.com)
- Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 31 October 2019), memorial page for Dr Jeremiah Manasco (16 Jan 1832–1 May 1862), Find A Grave Memorial no. 36762080, citing Manasco Cemetery, Townley, Walker County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by ~A MS Bama Son~® (contributor 46971531) .
- Manasco, Karen, Genealogy.com’s Manasco Forum, August 26, 2004, https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/manasco/207/
- National Park Service, Soldier and Sailor’s Database, 22nd Alabama Infantry, https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=CAL0022RI , accessed October 30, 2019.
