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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Joseph Benton Lanham

(1842 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

At age 18 he enlisted in Navarro County as a Private in Company I, 4th Texas Infantry on 17 July 1861 and was appointed First Corporal on 28 December 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was furloughed for 30 days on 8 October, extended 40 days. He was back with his Company on 8 May 1863 but was a Private again by January 1864. He was wounded again, in his right thigh on 7 October 1864 (place not given), in a Richmond hospital the next day, and in a hospital in Montgomery, AL by 15 November 1864. There is no later military record.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists.

He married Mary Susan Powell (b. 1841) in June 1867 in Navarro County.

Birth

12/22/1842; Beinville Parish, LA

Death

Date not known; Eastland County, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 163 - 164 [AotW citation 1904]

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 26733]

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