(? - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private in Company C, 3rd Alabama Infantry, and was probably promoted to Sergeant, dates not given.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action probably near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, and captured.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 19 September but died there on 24 September 1862.
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama.1 His wound, death, hospital, and burial details from the Patient List,2 as Joseph A. Davis. He has two stones at Mt. Olivet (via Findagrave).
Death
09/24/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=47739 [AotW citation 25983]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #197 [AotW citation 25984]