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Private

Joseph Calvin Weaver

(1837 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company H, 26th Alabama Infantry on 17 March 1862. He was sick in Richmond, VA for most of July 1862, but returned to duty on the 29th.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Fincham's roster,1 sourced from Tod L. Molsworth's O'Neal's 26th Alabama: the Little Regiment that Did (2000). Personal details from family genealogists.

He married Isabella L Bigham (1836-) and they had 3 sons. Their third, Joseph, Jr., was born in the same month as his father died.

Birth

1837; Marion County, AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Alabama, Published 2005, first accessed 23 August 2020, <https://ranger95.com/civil_war/alabama/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/26ala_inf/26th_ala_inf_roster_h.htm [AotW citation 25474]

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