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Confederate (CSV)

Captain

Joshua Milton Townsend

(1834 - 1863)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He was commissioned First Lieutenant, Company A, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment on 25 November 1861 at age 27, and was detailed as acting Commissary in December. He was appointed Captain on 31 January 1862.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the US General Hospital #1, Frederick, MD, sent to Ft. Delaware, then to Aikens' Landing, VA and formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He commanded the Battalion at Chickamauga, GA, and was killed in action there on 20 September 1863.

References & notes

His service from Davis,1who says he was captured in action at Fox's Gap on 14 September 1862, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

03/28/1834 in SC

Death

09/20/1863; Chickamauga, GA; burial in Tabernacle Cemetery, Cokesbury, SC

Notes

1 Davis, Sam B., A History of the 3rd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Battalion (James Battalion): 1861-1865 , Wilmington (NC): Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 68-71, Roster [AotW citation 16061]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34491]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #231 [AotW citation 34492]

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