Joseph Marion Vineyard

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old living with his parents and 5 younger siblings on their small farm at Wynn Creek in Tallapoosa County AL. He enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was in action with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, his 20th birthday, and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 7 July 1863 to 14 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

In 1870 he was a farm worker at Walnut Hill in Tallapoosa County and in 1880 was a farmer in Elmore County, AL. By 1900 he was a farmer in Jackson Parish, LA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Talitha Jane Spain (1845-) in 1865. He married again, Frances D. O'Daniel (1850-1878) in November 1867 and they had 4 children. He married, third, the widow Americus A Wheeless Ledbetter (1838-1895) in January 1880. He married, fourth, the widow Julia Alma Mann Phillips (1867-1916) in January 1897; she brought two children from her previous marriage and bore him 5 more.

09/14/1842 in AL

11/17/1916; in LA; burial in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Vernon, LA