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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph Curtis England

(1835 - 1922)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company B, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 19 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was exchanged on 2 October 1862 and returned to duty. He was on furlough recovering from typhoid fever in July 1863 and transferred to the 3rd Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion, date not given. He was wounded in the left arm at Spotsylvania, VA on 12 May 1864. He was captured at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865 and held at Point Lookout, MD until he was released on 11 June 1865.

References & notes

His service from Graham.1 Details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Eliza Carolyn Talley (1840-1922) and they had 10 children.

Birth

10/28/1835; Burke County, NC

Death

10/17/1922; burial in Swamp Creek Baptists Church Cemetery, Whitfield County, GA

Notes

1 Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /InfCoB.html [AotW citation 21862]

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