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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph T. Knowles

(c. 1831 - c. 1910)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 53rd Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 29 year old farmer at Fayetteville, GA. He enlisted there as a Private in Company C, 53rd Georgia Infantry on 1 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his hip in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and was captured there.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 27 September and admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 15 October. He was transferred to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 20 (or 18) October, then on to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange.

He was absent on furlough due to wounds to about August 1863, then on detached service/extra duty at Brigade headquarters to the end of the war. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

In 1870 he was farming at Newnan in Coweta County, GA. In 1880 he was a farmer at Halpins in Randolph County, AL.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online via fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as J.T. Knowels. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880, also as J.T. Knowls, Joseph Knoles, and Joseph Noles.

He married Sarah May Hobgood (1829-1888) in about 1847 in Fayette County, GA and they had 7 children.

Birth

c. 1831 in GA

Death

c. 1910; in TX

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 27410]

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 #1.085 [AotW citation 27411]

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