Joshua Lake, Jr.

Of Irish-born parents, in 1860 he was a 17 year old laborer living with them and 10 siblings in Philadelphia. He enlisted there on 1 June 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company B, 2nd Delaware Infantry on 13 June. He was promoted to Sergeant by December 1861.

He was wounded by a gunshot to the right side of his skull in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

He was admitted to the Walnut Street Hospital in Harrisburg, PA on 24 September and sent to the Race Street Hospital in Philadelphia on the 27th. He transferred to the Mower/Chestnut Hill Hospital there on 14 January 1863. He was in pain from his wound for the duration of that time. On 2 February, part of the bullet which lodged in his skull was removed. He rapidly recovered and was on light duty by the end of the month. He was there to about June 1863, then returned to his regiment, but was assigned to the invalid detachment.

He transferred as a Sergeant to the 53rd Company, 2nd Battalion, Invalid Corps (Veteran Reserve Corps) on 17 December 1863.

By 1870 he was again a laborer in Philadelphia. He began receiving a veteran's disability pension in June 1871 and in 1880 was a hotel keeper in Philadelphia. He was still living there at the Veteran's Census of 1890 and was a saloon keeper at his death at age 51 in 1894.

Basic service from the State of Delaware,1 as Josiah Lake, with details from his Compiled Service Records.2 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amanda Evans (1846-1907) and they had 3 or 4 children.

c. 1843 in PA

09/12/1894; Philadelphia, PA; burial in Laurel Hill Cemetery West, Bala Cynwyd, PA