Joseph L. Friddell

A farmer's son, in 1860 he was a 24 year old journal printer at Selma in Dallas County, GA. He enlisted in Decatur, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August.

He was severely wounded by gunshots to his shoulder and leg in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD then sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore. He was transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA on 11 October for exchange, and was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 15 October. He was furloughed home for 30 days on 29 October, returned to duty on 23 November 1862, and was paid on 31 March 1863, the last record in his file with the Legion.

He transferred as a Private to Company D of the 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters by June 1863 and was appointed 3rd Corporal in about December 1863. He was captured on 21 June 1864 near Petersburg, VA and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until he was exchanged on 1 November, with no later military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a painter in Atlanta, GA but by 1900 was a farmer at Fairplay in Douglas County, GA. In 1910 he was still in Fairplay, again painting houses, then 75 years old.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amanda Frances "Fannie" Williams (1838-1925) in October 1856 and they had at least 7 children.

03/09/1835; Walton County, GA

05/27/1913; Douglas County, GA; burial in Historic Heritage Garden Cemetery, Douglasville, GA