Owen Joyce

A 24 year old farmer, he enlisted at Wentworth, NC on 10 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 18 May in Garysburg, NC. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was wounded by a gunshot to the fleshy part of his thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded again, by a piece of shell to his left shoulder at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was appointed 4th Corporal on 1 July 1864 and was 3rd Corporal when he surrendered and was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer with a small place at Stoneville in Rockingham County, NC. In 1901, still in Stoneville, he reported that his Sharpsburg wound "don't hurt me" but his Getttysburg wound "pains very much at times." He was still farming in 1910, but by then was living with his daughter Sallie Smith and her family in Rockingham County.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1910, and his 1901 Confederate pension application; he's also seen in later records as Robert Owen Joyce. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lucy Parker (1839-1928) in September 1856 and they had 7 children.

08/13/1835; Rockingham County, NC

05/08/1915; Huntsville, NC; burial in Stoneville Cemetery, Stoneville, NC