Joseph Phillips

In 1860 he was a 30 year old farm worker probably on his father-in-law Craven Gregg's farm in Wayne Township, Greene County, PA. He enlisted on 25 September 1861 and mustered in Morgantown as a Private in Company F, 7th West Virginia Infantry on 2 October.

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, the bullet entering the left side of his neck and exiting near his shoulder blade.

He was treated at a field hospital near the battlefield, then on 27 September sent to Satterlee Hospital in Philadelphia. He was discharged there for disability on 28 November 1862, his wound had healed but he had loss of vision and his left arm was paralyzed.

In 1870 he was farming, probably on a relative's place at Middlebourne in Tyler County, WV. In that year a pension examiner in Wheeling noted he had atrophy of his left arm. By 1880 he was farming at Burning Springs in Wirt County, and he was still there at the 1890 US Veterans' Census, "not able for manual labor."

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave, as Joseph L Phillips.

He married Margaret Jane Gregg (1833-1912) in 1856 and they had 8 children.

c. 1830; Greene County, PA

07/26/1898; burial in Wolverton Cemetery, Munday, WV