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"Joe"
(1843 - 1916)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer on his parents' modest place at Gibson in Glascock County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 as a Private in Company A, 48th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was seriously wounded in the hip in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was furloughed home on 2 October and back on duty by January 1863. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farm worker living with Dr. Edmond Scruggs and others in Glascock County, GA, but by 1880 he was farming his own place there; 3 brothers' and his parents' farms were nearby. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Emanuel County, GA.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his modern marker has him confused with a soldier in the 38th Georgia Infantry who died in 1862.
He married Ruth Wilcher (1857-1937) in August 1873 and they had 10 children.
His brother John was also in Company A and wounded at Sharpsburg.
Birth
01/24/1843; Glascock County, GA
Death
12/14/1916; in GA; burial in Hines Baptist Church Cemetery, Summertown, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 5, p. 103 [AotW citation 31744]
2 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 31745]