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(c. 1840 - 1863)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Benevolence in Randolph County, GA, he enlisted as a Private in Company E, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the chest in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 27 September and returned to his Company on 10 November 1862. He was severely wounded by a gunshot through the left groin at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July and captured there on 3 or 4 July 1863. He was sent to the Camp Letterman Hospital in Gettysburg on 30 July and died there of wounds on 30 August 1863; he was 23 years old.
After the War
His remains - along with those of 31 other Confederate dead - were removed from Gettysburg to Savannah, GA in August 1871.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as J.S. Haden, and from Henderson,2 as Joseph Hayden. His reinterment from the Savannah Morning News of 22 August 1871 (as J S Harden); transcription thanks to Dale Gary Nichols, 38th Georgia historian. Medical details also found in the MSHWR.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
More on the Web
His Compiled Service Record file includes the surgeon's log of his medical treatment at Camp Letterman in August 1863. I've posted it on the blog.
Birth
c. 1840
Death
08/30/1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Laurel Grove Cemetery North, Savannah, GA
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 28462]
2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28463]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, pg. 324 [AotW citation 28464]