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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph Grant

(c. 1845 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 16, he enlisted in Roanoke, AL as a Private in Company I, 13th Alabama Infantry on 23 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the "White House" hospital on the Line farm at Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds between 17 and 29 September. He was buried nearby, but his current resting place is unknown.

References & notes

His service from the Alabama database1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1845 in AL

Death

09/00/1862; Sharpsburg, MD