John C. W. Steger
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted on 11/15/1862 as a Asst Surgeon.
On 11/15/1862 he was commissioned into Field & Staff AL 4th Cavalry
He was listed as:
* POW 2/16/1863 Fort Donelson, TN
* Paroled 3/13/1863 Petersburg, VA
* Oath Allegiance 5/9/1865 Gainesville, AL
Other Information:
born 2/28/1834 in Madison County, AL
died 11/19/1922 in Huntsville, AL
After the War he lived in Dover, TN & Madison Co., AL
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Research by James A. Dunning
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Confederate Veteran Magazine
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Confederate Veteran: v. 31, p. 305
Dr. J. C. W. Stegek.
The death of Dr. John C. Steger, of Madison County, Ala., on November 19, 1922, brought sorrow to many friends to whom he was endeared by a life of active kindliness. He was a member of Camp Egbert Jones, U. C. V., of Huntsville, Ala., but his home was at Gurley for many years.
John C. W. Steger was born in Madison County, Ala., February 28, 1834, and graduated in medicine at the Nashville Medical College, 1857.
During the War between the States, Dr. Steger served as a surgeon in the 4th Alabama Cavalry, Russell's Regiment, Forrest's command. He was captured at Fort Donelson, and released in March, 1863, at Petersburg, Va.; paroled May 9, 1865. With the exception of his term of imprisonment, his service as a soldier was continuous, having only eight days' leave of absence, on account of sickness. Of his service, he wrote: "I did what I could to sustain the cause, and regret I could not do more."
A friend and comrade, J. E. Hewlett, pays this tribute: " I am proud that I can claim the honor of having been with him in the service of the Confederacy from 1862 to 1865, and can say of him that I never knew a braver, truer soldier. He was always where duty called attending the sick and looking after the wounded in time of battle. He and I surrendered and were paroled at Gainesville, Ala., one month after Lee had surrendered in Virginia. . . . We started out on horseback for Hunstville, Ala., our home, and on the way spent one night at Governor Chatman's home at Tuscaloosa. The next day we rode sixty miles and spent the night in a farmhouse where the Avondale Library now is in Avondale Park, Bir- mingham. Then all around where the springs now are was a willow swamp.
"For several years after the war Dr. Steger was connected with an iron company at Dover, Tenn., on the Cumberland River, as physician, and later on had charge of and settled up the business of the company After spending many years in Tennessee, he decided In retire from active business and come back to his native heath and take life easy. ... He built a summer home on Sharp's Mountain, about twenty miles east of Huntsville, and often spent the winter there as well, sometimes with friends around and with him, . . . His Camp will miss him, his hosts of friends will miss him, the birds of the mountain that often sang him to sleep will miss him. He has answered the last roll call, has crossed over the river, and I hope some sweet day we will meet him again 'over there.'"