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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Joseph Gibbs Long

(1841 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents, 6 siblings, and 5 slaves on their farm at Graham in Alamance County, NC. He enlisted there on 8 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 May in Garysburg, NC. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was appointed 3rd Corporal on 9 December 1861 and promoted to First Sergeant on 24 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He returned to duty about January 1863 but was killed at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

His father Jacob filed a claim for his final pay of $275.27 in December 1863.

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/06/1841; Alamance County, NC

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, VA; burial in Providence Cemetery. Graham, NC

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, p. 489 [AotW citation 33219]

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 33220]

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