John F. Burke, age 23, enlisted as a Private in Captain J. C. Gordon's Company, 3rd Regiment East Tennessee Volunteers** July 8, 1861 at Knoxville, Tenn., captured at Fort Donelson February 16, 1862, forwarded to Camp Douglas, Illinois prison camp, hospitalized there April 8-16 with Pneumonia, sent to Vicksburg for exchange arriving September 23, 1862, left sick at Montgomery Alabama, September 30, 1862, no further records

**This company subsequently became (1st) Company H, 26th Regiment Tennessee Infantry. The 26th Regiment Tennessee Infantry (also called the 3rd Regiment East Tennessee Infantry) was organized September 6, 1861 and accepted into service of the Confederate States in September or October 1861. Most of the regiment was captured at Fort Donelson, Tenn. February 16, 1862; released at Vicksburg, Miss., in September, 1862; re-organized shortly thereafter, and declared exchanged at Aikens Landing, Va., November 10, 1862. Compan G and (1st) Company H were transferred to the 1st Regiment Confederate Infantry . . . September 8, 1862, and became Companies K and I of that organization.

John F. Burk, Private, (2nd) Company I, 1st Confederate Regiment Georgia Volunteers**, last recorded present on his companies muster roll dated August 31, 1863, his file shows correspondence from the War Department to the Commissioner Georgia State Board of Pensions dated May 16, 1916 [Note - This could be the result of an application for a Confederate pension or that of his Widow's application]

**Also known at 1st Regiment Confederate Georgia Volunteers & First Confederate Infantry