Joseph Barnabus Currie

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer and son of Baptist minister Robert M. Currie in Lavernia, TX. He enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861.

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. He stayed behind with wounded troops at Shepherdstown, VA after the battle and was captured there.

He was paroled at Winchester, VA and was back on duty by November 1862. He was appointed 4th Corporal on 20 May 1863 and was wounded in the the left leg at Chickamauga, GA on 20 September 1863. Surgeon Jones amputated his leg "4 in below left knee" the same day, and he was afterward in hospitals in Richmond, Charlottesville and Lynchburg, VA, and on furlough. He ordered an artificial leg in Richmond, VA on 20 February 1864 and was retired by a medical board at Charlottesville on 21 (or 26) June 1864.

By 1880 he was a cattle rancher in Concho County, TX and he was still farming there in 1910.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Annie Elizabeth "Annie" Browning (1850-1905) in Guadalupe County in August 1869 and they had 8 children.

12/30/1840; Choctaw County, MS

11/11/1911; Ballinger, TX; burial in Paint Rock Cemetery, Paint Rock, TX