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(1842 - 1918)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A farm worker in Newberry County, he enlisted as Private, Infantry Company H, Holcombe Legion on 7 January 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was furloughed for 30 days and returned to duty. He was captured at the Crater near Petersburg, VA on 5 November 1864 and held at Point Lookout, MD until released after taking the oath of allegiance on 24 June 1865.
After the War
He was a farm worker in Newberry County, then moved to Coweta County, GA by 1880.
References & notes
His service and other details thanks to Barry Truluck from his research in the US Census (1850-1880), Carmical's Compiled Service Records (via Fold3), and the Roll 1 for Company H, which has him as Joseph D. Carmichael.
He married three times: first, Mary Josephine Glasgow (1846-1870), then Sarah Ann Young (1847-1879), and lastly (cousin?) Sarah Jane Carmical (1844-1925).
Birth
07/27/1842
Death
12/26/1918; burial in White Oak Associate Reformed Presbyterian Cemetery, Newnan, GA
1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Company H, Holcombe Legion [AotW citation 22104]