Robeson-Cumberland County NcArchives Military Records.....Mercer, Pvt John Picket August 24, 1916
Civilwar - Enlistment Company D, 51st North Carolina Troops
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Pvt. J.P. Mercer Dies In Calvert ,Texas
Compiled Service Record ---  

Private John Picket Mercer previously served as Private in Company D, 12 
Regiment N.C. Troops (2nd Regiment N.C. Volunteers).  Enlisted in this company 
in Cumberland County on March 20, 1862.  Present or accounted for until wounded 
in the right leg and captured at Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 1, 1864.  Confined 
at Point Lookout, Maryland, June 11, 1864.  Transferred to Elmira, New York, 
July  12, 1864.  Paroled at Elmira on March 10, 1865.  Received at Boulware’s 
Warf, James River, Virginia, March 15, 1865, for exchange.  Survived the war.


The following is from the Confederate Veteran Magazine, January 1916, Vol. 24, 
Page 511

John Picket Mercer, who died in Calvert, Tex., on August 24, 1916, was born 
November 12, 1842, near Lumberton, Robeson County, N. C. When the war came on 
between the States, he enlisted in a company that became a part of the 1st 
North Carolina Infantry. After serving twelve months, he reenlisted in Company 
D, 51st North Carolina Infantry, H. McEthan [McKethan], colonel, Clingman's 
Brigade, Hoke's Division. He was with General Beauregard in the defense of 
Charleston, S. C, and in Battery Wagner on July 18, 1863, when the Union forces 
used every effort to take it by storm and left their dead scattered thickly 
over about four acres. 

Early in 1864 Beauregard's army was transferred to Petersburg and then to James 
River, Va.; and on May 18, when General Beauregard fought the battle of Dairy's 
[Drewry’s] Bluff, Comrade Mercer's command took quite a prominent part in it. 
The latter part of May his command joined General Lee's army in time to take 
part in the first day's battle at Cold Harbor, June I, 1864. In this battle he 
was wounded in the right leg and captured and taken first to Point Lookout, 
then to Elmira, N. Y., where he was kept until the close of the war. When 
released he returned to his home, in North Carolina, and for several years 
engaged in business.

Finding that he could not get along with the Reconstruction authorities in 
North Carolina, he went to Texas and at last located in the southern part of 
Robertson County and engaged in farming and contracting until the early 
nineties, when he went into business in Calvert. He was married to Miss Pauline 
Jeanne Bibbs in 1900.
John Mercer came of a good old English family of colonial days which gave many 
eminent men to the colonies and to North Carolina. He was a forceful character, 
kind and generous, and of great native ability.     


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