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Confederate Veteran, December, 1922.
Another of the comrades in gray
answered the last roll call when JOHN W. RISER died on September 10,
1922, at the home of his daughter, MRS. JAMES McD. McFADDEN, at Manning,
S.C. He was born Oct.16, 1838, in Newberry, S.C. He married MISS LAURA
N. METTS, who preceded him to the grave and he is survived by six
children.
MR. RISER was a soldier of the
Confederacy, enlisting with Gregg's 1st South Carolina Regiment in
Januuary, 1861, serving for six months. He then enlisted in Kershaw's
2d South Carolina Regiment, in which he served until the end of the war.
He was in some of the hardest- fought battles of the war, among them
being the battles of Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg,
Chickamauga, Richmond and others. Although in the thickest of these
battles, he was never wounded. He was a consistent Christian, a member
of the Pendleton Street Baptist church at Greenville, S.C.
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