John Hardin Crouch served with Co. A, 51st Tennessee Regiment, C.S.A from November 16, 1861 until April 1865. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Fort Donaldson on February 16, 1862, and was transferred to Johnson’s Island, Sandusky, Ohio, for the remainder of the war.

John married Elizabeth Hurt and had five children prior to the war and two more after.