John PILKINGTON

1810 - 1864  (54 years)

• Name	John PILKINGTON
  Born	25 Jan 1810	Accrington, Lancashire, England
  Christened	18 Feb 1810	Altham, Lancashire, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	4 Jul 1864	Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, United States
  Buried	Marietta National Cemetery, Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, United States
  Person ID	I340	Patterson & Markham Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2019

  
  

  Family	Sarah BURROWS,   b. Cal 1816, Bury, Lancashire, England ,   d. 31 Dec 1887, Bethpage, Queens, New York, United States  (Age ~ 71 years)
  Children	1. Elizabeth PILKINGTON,   b. Cal 1853, , , New York, United States
  Family ID	F264	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Died at Marietta or Allatoona, Georgia in Civil War? Register of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-65 (NJ Roster) Published in 1876. Died of chronic diarrhoea at 4th Div. Hosp., Allatoona, Ga., July 4, '64; buried at Nat. Cemetery, Marietta, Ga., Sec. C, Grave 877, 2099. John died during the Civil War as a union soldier. He is buried at George National Cemetery, Marietta, Ataloona, Georgia. He died of chronic diarrhea (dysentery). Notes found about this disease are as follows: "The culprit in most cases of wartime illness, however, was the shocking filth of the army camp itself. An inspector in late 1861 found most Federal camps 'littered with refuse, food, and other rubbish, sometimes in an offensive state of decomposition; slops deposited in pits within the camp limits or thrown out of broadcast; heaps of manure and offal close to the camp." As a result, bacteria and viruses spread through the camp like wildfire. Bowel disorders constituted the soldiers' most common complaint. The Union army reported that more than 995 out of every 1,000 men eventually contracted chronic diarrhea or dysentery during the war; the Confederates fared no better."