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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph C. Hopkins

(? - 1864)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Walker County, TX as a Private in Company H, 4th Texas Infantry on 7 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was appointed 2nd Sergeant by the end of 1863 but was "left sick on the road to Knoxville [TN] Dec 20, 1863" and on all later Company rolls listed as "supposed to be dead." He had, rather, been captured on 20 November 1863 at Knoxville and was sent to Louisville, KY on 11 February with further transfer to the prison at Rock Island, IL on 15 February 1864. He died there of pneumonia on 13 March 1864 and was buried south of the prison barracks.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

03/13/1864; Rock Island, IL; burial in Rock Island Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island, IL

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1879]

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 26907]

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