Joseph Shelton Savage

In 1860 he was an unmarried 23 year old carpenter living with his parents and 4 siblings on their small farm at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as 4th Corporal of Company K of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was promoted to 4th Sergeant on 20 July 1862.

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 by a gunshot to his right foot at Jones' Farm near Petersburg, VA on 30 September 1864, admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 2 October, and his leg was amputated in the lower third on 15 October. He was furloughed for 45 days on 20 October and noted as "entirely recovered" on 31 December 1864. He was examined by a medical board and retired due to disability on 15 (or 26) March 1865 with no later military record.

In 1870 he was a carriage maker at Chambers Court House in Chambers County, AL but by 1880 he was a carpenter in Terrell, Kaufman County, TX. He was a wheelwright there by 1900 and a woodworking laborer in 1910, by then 70 years old.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and a clipping from the Fairfield (TX) Recorder of 28 August 1896. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married the widow Nancy Ann Latham White (1848-1945) in about 1888.

His brothers Jefferson Lafayette (1835-1907) and Jesse James Savage were also in Company K.

05/20/1837; Cherokee County, AL

01/11/1918; Terrell, TX; burial in Oakland Memorial Park, Terrell, TX