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John Sevier Fisher was my great-great grandfather. My grandmother, Mamie Fisher Galloway attended his burial service at The Fisher Reunion, held at Lake Toxaway on 10 September 1955. The family did not know what happened to him during the Civil War. Ralph R. Fisher, one of his grandsons, was an attorney in Brevard, and served as a representative from Transylvania County in the North Carolina legislature. Ralph spent years locating Grandpa's grave, and had his body returned for burial at Lake Toxaway. Pallbearers for the ceremony were all grandsons named John:
John Fisher of Lake Toxaway, John Fisher of Quebec (Both in Transylvania County), John J. Fisher, John C. Fisher, and John L. Fisher (All of Tryon, North Carolina), and John T. Fisher of St. Petersburg, Florida.
The Confederate flag that was draped on his casket was given to my grandmother, Mamie Fisher Galloway, as his oldest grandchild. The original grave marker from Rock Island was removed and sent to Lake Toxaway to be erected on his grave there; the marker is # 647.
Below is the information I have about Grandpa's military service and death:
He enlisted in the Confederate Army, Infantry, in 1863, as a Private, Company K, 62nd N.C. Regiment. The Regiment was formed at Waynesville, N.C., July 1862. In July 1863, the Regiment was assigned to Gen. Gracie's Brigade at Cumberland Gap, Ky. John Sevier Fisher was shot and captured on 9 Aug 1863, at the Battle of Cumberland Gap, Ky. He was taken to Yankee Miles Prison, Louisville, Kentucky, and then sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, and finally taken to the Union prison at Rock Island, IL, where he died from smallpox on 28 Feb 1864.
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