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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph D. Hays

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 23rd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 24, he enlisted as Private, Company E, 23rd South Carolina Infantry on 28 September 1861 in the Marion District.

On the Campaign

He was captured (reported missing) in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sent from Ft. McHenry in Baltimore to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 17 October and was absent, sick, in hospitals in Richmond and Danville, VA into February 1863. He was with his Company to at least the end of 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records with his death from the casualty list for the 23rd South Carolina (Confederate States Army Casualty Lists and Narrative Reports, RG 109, NARA), both online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1837