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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph Benjamin Majors

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Known as Joe Ben, he enlisted at Waco, TX as a Corporal in Company E, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 July 1861. He was First Corporal of his Company by February 1862 but a Private by June. He was wounded in the side at Cold Harbor, VA on 27 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was in action on South Mountain near Boonsboro, MD on 14 September but absent at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sick in Richmond, VA hospitals from October 1862 through June 1863, probably with Syphilis, but rejoined his Company in the field in August. From camp near Knoxville, TN on 19 December 1863 Private J.C. West of his Company wrote home:

... Macon Mullens, Sam Billingsly, Billy Robinson, Joe Ben Majors and some others, whom you do not know, have been barefooted for three or four weeks, but we have pressed a good deal of leather from the tan yards about here, and several of our men have been shod, and I trust all soon will be ... I have nothing to write which I would enjoy writing out here in the cold ...

He was listed as a deserter as of 15 February 1864 with no later military record.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. The letter quoted above is online from Daily Observations from the Civil War (2013). Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842 in TN

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 155-157 [AotW citation 1768]

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 26649]

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