Joseph J. Parton

He was an unmarried 26 year old mechanic from Huntsville, AL when he enlisted as Private on 26 April 1861 in Company F, 4th Alabama Infantry. He was present with his Company in engagements from First Manassas to Malvern Hill, VA.

He was appointed 3rd Lieutenant (or Junior 2nd Lieutenant) on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

He was wounded in the right leg in action at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863, in General Hospital #4, Richmond, VA, and furloughed on 30 July. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 24 August, at Culpeper, VA, and captured while recovering at home in Huntsville, AL in November 1863. He took the Oath of Allegiance at Fort Delaware on 12 June 1865 and was sent home.

He lived in Waco, TX.

Basic information from State of Alabama1, which has his birthplace as Tennessee. Details from the Buseys.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

01/02/1834 in VA

01/10/1918; Waco, TX; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, TX