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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

John Calvin Joyce

(1832 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 28 year old tobacconist in Rockingham County, NC, he enlisted at Wentworth, NC on 10 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 13th North Carolina Infantry on 18 May Garysville, NC. He was promoted to Sergeant on 6 November 1861 and commissioned 3rd Lieutenant on 26 April 1862.

On the Campaign

"Lieutenant [J. C.] Joyce, commanding Company H, led his men into action bravely and coolly, but was killed by the very first fire" in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The quote above from Lieutenant Colonel Ruffin's after-action report. His memorial in Greenview Cemetery, Reidsville, NC is on Findagrave.

Birth

10/19/1832; Rockingham County, NC

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD

Notes

1 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 19168]

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 33184]

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