Sunny South Guards

Military Flag Presentation Ceremony

ROLL OF HONOR

The following Florida Veteran is being honored in this project:

5th SGT. JOHN W. WILDER - WIA & POW & DIED

Age at enlistment: Abt. 21

Born: about 1839

Parents: William Wilder, Jr. (b. 1807), and Sarah Gross (b. 1816)

Died: October 16, 1864

Final Resting Place: Camp Chase, OH POW Camp Cemetery grave marker no. 314, grave 4, row 11.

Married: unknown

Children: unknown

Enlisted 6/6/1861 at Tampa and appears as 5th Sgt. in mid 1862 then 4th Sgt soon after. He was wounded in the hand at Chickamauga 9/20/1863 and appears as 2nd Sgt on the last roll. He was captured 7/20/1864 near Atlanta and sent to Camp Chase, OH POW camp. He died 10/16/1864 and was buried in the prison cemetery.

Sgt. Wilder had three brothers who served: Thomas Hopkins served in this company, later in Capt. Lesley's Cow Cavalry unit and survived the war. Calffrey LaFayette was a POW but survived the war. However, the 4th brother, Andrew J. Wilder (b. 1845), also gave his last full measure, having enlisted in Co. I, 9th Florida Infantry in September 1863. A year later, he was killed at Petersburg, VA.

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