Joseph Lumpkin Argo

In 1860 he was a 22 year old living with his parents and 8 siblings on their small farm at Stone Mountain in DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted at Decatur, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry. He was appointed 3rd Corporal in 1862.

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

He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange on 6 October and declared exchanged there on 10 November 1862. He as elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant (3rd Lieutenant) on 13 (or 24) May 1863 and promoted Senior 2nd Lieutenant on 29 November 1863. He was wounded by a gunshot to his lower left leg on 16 August 1864 at Front Royal, VA, and was furloughed home from a Richmond, VA hospital for 40 days on 5 September. He was captured at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865, was briefly in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then sent on to Johnson's Island near Sandusky, OH. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 17 June and was released.

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in DeKalb County, GA, lastly at Lithonia, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1870, 1900, and 1910. His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth H Cagle (1840-1914) in November 1866 and they had 3 children.

His brothers John and James were also in Company C, and both were mortally wounded at Crampton's Gap and died in Burkittsville that October.

03/12/1838; DeKalb County, GA

08/29/1918; DeKalb County, GA; burial in Rock Springs Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Lithonia, GA