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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joel Forester

(c. 1842 - 1863)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 19 year old farmer on his father's place in Henderson County, he enlisted in Athens, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but not at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his knee at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and was captured in a field hospital there. He died of wounds, date not given.

After the War

He was probably reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery from his original burial on the field at Gettysburg about 1872.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as Joel Forrester. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has him as Joel Forrester, and the US Census for 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842 in GA

Death

07/1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 164 - 165 [AotW citation 1923]

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 26936]

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