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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph T. Powers

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 20th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 24 year old farmer (or wagoner), he enlisted in Columbus County, NC on 26 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 20th North Carolina Infantry on 18 June.

On the Campaign

Originally listed as killed, he was wounded in the face in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there:

gunshot wound carrying away the right eye and superior maxillary bone & part of the ear. Deafness and nearly blindness resulting.

The rest of the War

He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore about 10 October and on to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was admitted to the CS General Hospital in Petersburg, VA on 22 November and was discharged for wounds on 29 (or 30) November 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, source of the quote above, from his Certificate of Disability for Discharge. Wound details also in the MSHWR.3

Birth

c. 1837; Marion District, SC

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 19267]

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 31397]

3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 339 [AotW citation 31398]

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