{"id":60,"date":"2009-08-23T22:27:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T04:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2009-08-23T22:27:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T04:27:28","slug":"richard-h-koonce","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/military\/richard-h-koonce","title":{"rendered":"Richard H. Koonce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; \"><em>Contributed by <a href=\"\/jones\/contributors\">Claude T. Hardison Jr.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; \"><strong>Corporal Richard H. Koonce<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Confederate States of America<br \/>\nArmy of Northern Virginia<br \/>\nNorth Carolina Infantry<br \/>\n27th Regiment, Company I and 2nd Regiment, Company G<br \/>\nApril 11, 1862 ~ June 30, 1865<\/p>\n<p>On April 11, 1862, two young sons of James Wiley Benjamin Koonce and Mary Jane\u00a0Hawkins mustered into the Confederate Army from Jones County, N.C. The older of\u00a0the two brothers, Elijah Benjamin Koonce, who was named after his Grandfather,\u00a0Reverend Elijah Koonce, paid the ultimate sacrifice on the bloody battlefield of\u00a0Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2-3, 1863. As a result of a bullet wound to his shoulder,\u00a0Elijah died 7 July 1863 at the tender young age of 20. His body rest in one of the mass\u00a0gravesites with a multitude of brave young lads who sacrificed their lives for the Cause,\u00a0in one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. After the War, his family was awarded the\u00a0Southern Cross by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61\" title=\"wileykoonce\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wileykoonce.JPG\" alt=\"Elijah and Richard Koonce's youngest brother, Wiley Koonce, also a Confederate veteran, with the Southern Cross pined to his lapel.\" width=\"221\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wileykoonce.JPG 221w, https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wileykoonce-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 85vw, 221px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elijah and Richard Koonce&#39;s youngest brother, Wiley Koonce, also a Confederate veteran, with the Southern Cross pined to his lapel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by Claude T. Hardison Jr. Corporal Richard H. Koonce Confederate States of America Army of Northern Virginia North Carolina Infantry 27th Regiment, Company I and 2nd Regiment, Company G April 11, 1862 ~ June 30, 1865 On April 11, 1862, two young sons of James Wiley Benjamin Koonce and Mary Jane\u00a0Hawkins mustered into the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/military\/richard-h-koonce\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Richard H. Koonce&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":29,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-60","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}