Josiah Marlin Dunn

In 1860 he was an unmarried 29 year old mechanic living with mechanic J.P. Dunnerly and his family at Rehoboth in Wilcox County, AL. He enlisted in Bridgeport, AL on 6 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to First Corporal on 1 December 1862 and was wounded again, in the Wilderness, VA in May 1864 and his arm was amputated. He was afterward on wounded furlough to the end of the war.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Camden, Wilcox County, AL and by 1880 and to at least 1900 in Monroe County, AL. In 1910 he was the postmaster at Scotland, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives,2 also as Josiah Martin Dunn. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Josephine Augusta Jackson (1844-1924) in December 1868 and they had 6 sons and 2 daughters, in that order.

His brother Thomas J Dunn (b. 1839) was also in Company A, but died of ascites, probably from liver disease, in the CS General Hospital in Danville, VA on 9 July 1862.

06/21/1831; Camden, AL

02/27/1911; Scotland, AL; burial in Old Scotland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Monroeville, AL