{"id":548,"date":"2011-12-28T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T22:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/?page_id=548"},"modified":"2011-12-28T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T22:29:07","slug":"military-release-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/military-release-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Release Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James R. Wilkerson enlisted in Company D, 56th Infantry Regiment, NC, on October 23, 1864.\u00a0 He was wounded on March 25, 1865 at Fort Stedman, VA; hospitalized in Richmond, Va; and became a POW on April 3, 1865.\u00a0 He was transferred to Point Lookout Federal Prison in MD on May 2, 1865 and released on June 28, 1865.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>James Wilkerson&#8217;s Certificate of Release from Point Lookout Prison:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oc_wilkerson_civil_war_pardon_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-549\" src=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oc_wilkerson_civil_war_pardon_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oc_wilkerson_civil_war_pardon_1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oc_wilkerson_civil_war_pardon_1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(above) front<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oc_wilkerson_civil_war_pardon_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-550\" src=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oc_wilkerson_civil_war_pardon_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oc_wilkerson_civil_war_pardon_2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oc_wilkerson_civil_war_pardon_2-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(above) back<\/em><\/p>\n<p>James Wilkerson&#8217;s daughter and son-in-law, Arietta and William Dunn, are buried in <a href=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb-cem.com\/index.php\/Orange-County\/Cedar-Grove-Cemetery\">Cedar Grove Cemetery<\/a> in Orange County.<\/p>\n<p><em>contributed by\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dunnjl@olg.com\">Joe Dunn,<\/a> great-grandson of James R. Wilkerson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James R. Wilkerson enlisted in Company D, 56th Infantry Regiment, NC, on October 23, 1864.\u00a0 He was wounded on March 25, 1865 at Fort Stedman, VA; hospitalized in Richmond, Va; and became a POW on April 3, 1865.\u00a0 He was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/military-release-papers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-548","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/orange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}