Joseph J. Johnson

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer at Jacinto in Tishamingo County, MS. He enlisted at Hazlehurst, Copiah County, MS on 9 March 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 12th Mississippi Infantry at Corinth, MS on 12 May 1861. He was appointed Sergeant, date not given, and wounded in action near Richmond in late June 1862.

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

He was appointed First Sergeant by December 1862 (possibly as early as 3 September, when First Sergeant Thompson was commissioned Lieutenant). He was captured at Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865 and held at Point Lookout, MD to 28 June 1865, when he was released after taking an oath of allegiance.

By 1880 he was a farmer in Alcorn County (split from Tishomingo County in 1869), MS.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Arena Henson (1838-1914) in February 1857 and they had 3 children.

1838; Wilson County, TN

1889; burial in Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery, Ripley, MS