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Austin Rhodes fought in Company H, 22nd North Carolina Regiment, Scales Brigade, A.P. Hill's Corp, Pender's Division.
Both Austin and James were taken prisoner a few days before the end of the conflict outside of Petersburg, Virginia, at Hatcher's Run. >From there they were taken as prisoners to New York Harbor. Each had to sign an oath of allegiance to the United States before they were released.
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Austin C. Rhodes was born in the year 1836 in Rockingham County to James Henry Rhodes and Sarah (Sally) Smith Rhodes. His brothers and sisters were Elizabeth (Betty) 1841, Hardin 1842, Letitia (Lettie) 1844, James H. 1846, Rufus 1851, and Sarah, 1854.
He married Elizabeth Terry on December 29, 1853. They had two sons, James Powell Rhodes and Dick Rhodes. They were farmers in Stokes County.
Austin enlisted in Company H, 22nd Regiment, North Carolina Troop on March 1, 1862. He was wounded at Frayser's Farm, Virginia on or about June 30, 1862. He was reported absent/wounded through October 1862. He returned on an unspecified date and was wounded again, in the shoulder, at or near Wilderness, Virginia in May 1864. He was captured at Hatcher's Run, Virginia on April 2, 1863 and confined at Hart's Island, New York Harbor until he was released on June 19, 1863 after taking the Oath of Allegiance.
While Austin was away, Sarah (Sally) passed away. On August 28, 1866 he married Matilda Frances Spencer. They had ten children. Herbert, who married Cora Bell Corns, Bud, Zeb, Drew, Sis (who married Bob Hawkins), Ila, Hester, Lula (who married Will Jessup), Minnie (who married Jonah Bullins), Bob (who married Zeporia Sheppard), Charles (who died at 16 years), and Verta (who married Walter Collins). Austin died in 1920.
James Powell Rhodes married Letitia Shelton. They had three sons, William Wesley, John R., and Luther E. Rhodes. William Wesley married Jennie Lula Gray. John R. married Bitt Jones and Luther was married to Eliza Lawson.
William Wesley and Jennie Gray Rhodes were the parents of William Hollis Rhodes who married Ellen Lackey, Posie E. Rhodes who married Avaline Honaker, Paul who died in infancy, Gabe who also died in infancy, Josie Marie Rhodes who married Manie Odell Stevens and Nina Virginia Rhodes who married Leonard Blair.
From these children there were nine grand- children, 25 great-grandchildren, and 14 great- great-grandchildren of the present generations.
Velmalene S. Leake
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The Back Rhodes of Our Genealogy
1836 - 1920 (83 years)
