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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph Barber

(1825 - 1869)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

A 36 year old boot maker from Covington, Newton County, GA, he enlisted there on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to the upper third of his arm in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 22 September and furloughed home from 2 October to about the end of the year. He was captured on 4 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 22 October 1863, when he was transferred to Point Lookout, MD. He was exchanged and released on 14 January 1865 and in the parole camp at Camp Lee in Richmond by 25 January with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amelia Verlin Jones (1825-1903) in February 1865 and they had a daughter Verlin.

Birth

04/26/1825

Death

09/01/1869; burial in Southview Cemetery, Covington, GA

Notes

1 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 33667]

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