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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph M. Wall

(c. 1836 - 1864)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer living with his mother, 4 siblings, and at least 17 slaves on their farm in Rockingham County, NC. He enlisted in Wentworth, NC on 3 May 1861, and he mustered as a Private in Company H of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry at Garysburg, NC on 18 May. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He returned to duty about January 1863 and was wounded again, by a gunshot to his right arm at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May and captured there. He was treated at the Lincoln Hospital in Washington, DC from 8 May to 11 June, paroled at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC on 25 June, and admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 30 June. He was furloughed for 60 days on 7 July and was back with his company about September 1863. He was killed at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 21 May 1864.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1836

Death

05/21/1864; Spotsylvania Court House,, VA

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. 501 [AotW citation 33239]

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 33240]

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