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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph Newton Cox

(1846 - 1914)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An 18 year old farm laborer in the Anderson District, he enlisted as Private, Company K, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 9 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his shoulder in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was at General Hospital #18 in Richmond, VA to 10 November 1862, when he was furloughed with no further military record.

References & notes

His service from Swain.1 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Elvira Poore (1847-1930) about 1860.

Birth

05/04/1846; Belton, Anderson District, SC

Death

10/20/1914; burial in Belton Cemetery, Belton, SC

Notes

1 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 477 [AotW citation 24476]

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