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Confederate (CSV)

Musician

Joseph B. Walker

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Musician, Company A, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 26 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at Boonsboro, MD on 28 September 1862. He was originally buried there near the "Hoffman Barn", but was reinterred in Washington Confederate Cemetery in about 1874.

References & notes

His service from Graham.1 His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1835; Edgefield District, SC

Death

09/28/1862; Boonsboro, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

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: /InfCoA2.html [AotW citation 21954]

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