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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph S. Smith

(c. 1845 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Age 16, he enlisted in Decatur, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company C of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sent for exchange from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA on 2 October and formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was wounded by a gunshot to his left hip and right leg at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital from 11 May to 25 June, then furloughed home. He was back in a Richmond hospital in August 1864 for his old wound, and was retired to the Invalid Corps for medical disability on 2 September 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1845

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 33901]

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