Tyler, John, fl. 1862.

Born Richmond, Va., May 13, 1836, served with Company F, 1st Virginia Regiment, then transferred to 21st Virginia and participated in campaigns in western Virginia in the summer of 1861. Senior 1st lieutenant with Letcher Artillery, Feb.-Aug. 1862, then became a member of General E. L. Thomas's staff. While convalescing from sickness, captured by Union forces then paroled; served with Confederate Army Invalid Corps and then on the staff of General James L. Kemper until the end of the war; businessman in Richmond where he died in 1924.

From the description of Diary kept while a lieutenant in Letcher's Artillery [manuscript] 1862 May 1-Oct. 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647945947

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