Joseph Herren

In 1860 he was a recently married 23 year old farmer at Mt Olive in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted on 9 March 1862 in Coosa County and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

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

He was wounded in the left leg, probably at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863, and was in hospitals in Richmond and Danville, VA until 13 October. He was captured in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until he was transferred to Elmira, NY on 27 July 1864. He died there of chronic diarrhea on 4 June 1865.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Joseph Herron, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, who have his death "before 1867," and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone and Elmira prison records have him in the 15th Alabama.

He married Elizabeth Phillips (1840-) in March 1859 and they had a daughter Mary.

12/24/1836; Hamilton, GA

06/04/1865; Elmira, NY; burial in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira, NY