Joseph Hatten Roquemore

Of French Huguenot ancestry, he was orphaned when his father died in 1859, and in 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer on his brother John's place near Newborn in Newton County, GA. He enlisted in Covington, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company A of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was wounded by gunshots to his left arm just above the elbow and to his right arm, breaking both, in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, and captured there.

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD then was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, when he was transferred to Fort McHenry in Baltimore. He was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange on 17 October, admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 29 October, and furloughed home for 50 days on 14 November. He was officially exchanged and eligible to return to duty on 10 November, returned from furlough on 7 March 1863, and was back in the Camp Winder hospital for his arm wounds in April and May 1863. He was afterward on detail as a guard in Richmond and was sick in hospitals there from August into October 1864 with no later record with the Legion.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Newton County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, and his Confederate pension applications of 1892 and later.

He married Mary J Callahan (1844-1904) in September 1866 and they had 9 children.

His brother John (1830-1911) was also in Company A of the Legion, and may have been with him on South Mountain in 1862.

10/09/1842; Mansfield, GA

01/18/1909; Mansfield, GA; burial in Carmel Cemetery, Mansfield, GA