Jeremiah Glenn Bell

Known by J. Glenn Bell, in 1860 he was a successful 26 year old farmer near Starkville in Oktibbeha County, MS. He enrolled and was elected 3rd Lieutenant, Company L, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 17 May (to date from 5 May) 1862.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in November 1862, but had not been able to return to his Company and resigned his commission on 21 February 1863 due to disability from his Sharpsburg wound.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Oktibbeha County, MS. In 1900 he was a "land lord" in Starkville, MS and had retired there by 1910.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Matilda K Edmonds (1833-1892) in July 1855 and they had 7 children. He married again, the widow Samuella Cathryn Tipton Ritchie/Richey (1855-1919) in February 1899, and they probably raised her son.

09/26/1832; Fairfield District, SC

09/07/1913; Starkville, MS; burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Starkville, MS