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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joel Armstrong

(c. 1843 - 1864)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company E, 17th South Carolina Infantry on 6 May 1862 at Camp Pillow.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Except for a furlough in November and December 1862, he was present with his Company until he was killed "in entrenchments near Petersburg, Va" on 17 July 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records, with his wound at "Boonsboro" from Colonel McMaster's list for the 17th South Carolina (Confederate States Army Casualty Lists and Narrative Reports, RG 109, NARA), both online from fold3.

His mother Nancy filed for his last pay in November 1864.

Birth

c. 1843; York District, SC

Death

07/17/1864; Petersburg, VA