Joel Crawford Barnett

In 1860 he was a prosperous 35 year old lawyer and owner of 5 slaves at Madison in Morgan County, GA. He enrolled there on 29 July 1861 and mustered as First Lieutenant of Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 2 August. He was promoted to Captain on 5 June 1862.

He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his left elbow in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured nearby.

He was treated at a US Army field hospital in Burtkittsville, MD and sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, where he was paroled on 14 December 1862. He was not able to rejoin his company and tendered his resignation on grounds of disability on 31 October 1863. His resignation was accepted to date from 5 January 1864.

By 1870 he was again a lawyer back in Madison. " ... a brave Confederate soldier, bore to his grave honorable scars & a useless arm."

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1870, and Allen P Tankersly's College Life at Old Oglethorpe (1951). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ann Mapp Fannin (1830-1902) in February 1860 and they had 3 children.

07/1824

12/18/1874; burial in Madison Historic Cemeteries, Madison, GA