Entered Confederate service in 1861, detailed i the Medical dept. in Richmond. Served as Sergeant, Company I, 1st Virginia Infantry, paroled in Danville 5/5/1865. To his death, served as president of the Metropolitan Savings Bank of Baltimore where he had serviced for 33 years and previously served for 20 years as the treasurer for the same bank.
He was named after Rev. John Carroll, first Archbishop of Baltimore, brother of Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. 1935 Mr. Payne received from the Pope the Order of a Knight of St. Gregory the Great.
During the Spanish-American War he was special correspondent for the Baltimore Sun. He was also correspondent for the Baltimore Herald; was the author of a biography of Admiral Raphael Semmes, published in the Library of Southern Literature; wrote "The Baltimore Oriole and Sketch of Audubon"; and contributed numerous special articles to magazines and newspapers, written in a warm, colorful, and sympathetic style.
Studied in Georgetown and Columbian College (now George Washington University) and in Paris.He bacame the resident physician at Charity Hospital. At the outbreak of the War he joined the Louisiana Volunteers and served as surgeon of Hay's Louisiana Brigade, Stonewall Jackson's Corps and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Hre married the daughter of the Attorney General of the first cabinet of President Andrew Jackson. After her death, he continued his medical career until the age of fifty. Abandoning medicine entirely, he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest. In 1895 he suffered a paralytic stroke. In 1898 he died at Hotel Dieu in New Orleans where he had been under the care of the Sisters of Charity who were in charge of the nursing staff at Charity Hospital where he had worked as a youth.
Lost at sea 1853 from S.S. "Antelope" en route from San Francisco to New York City.
Lt. Joseph Christmas Ives U.S.A.
United States Army