Withers, John (John T.), 1827-1892

Born in Tennessee and raised in Jacinto, Miss., John Withers was regimental quartermaster and acting adjutant, post adjutant, commissary and subsistence officer in the U.S. Army, holding posts in the Pacific Northwest, San Antonio, Tex., and Washington, D.C. He married Anita Dwyer, a San Antonio native, in 1859. Serving in Washington, D.C., at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Withers resigned from the U.S. Army and decamped with his family to Richmond, Va., where he worked in the Adjutant and Inspector General's Office of the Confederate States of America.

From the description of John Withers diaries, 1856-1862. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 156269412