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(1828 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 11th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 32 year old carriage maker at Reform in Pickens County, AL. He enlisted there on 11 June 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company H, 11th Alabama Infantry, but was reduced to Private about September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September (or 5 October?) and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA in June 1864, then furloughed home for 60 days with no later military record.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a wagon maker and farmer at Artesia in Lowndes County, MS. By 1900 he was making wagons in Cliftonville, Noxubee County, MS.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, indexed under Josiah A Allan. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900, also as Joseph A Allen.
He married Martha Minerva Mullins (1829-1890) and they had 3 children between 1851 and 1864. He married again, her half-sister Sarah A Mullins (1843-1936) in December 1890.
Birth
02/1828; , AL
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 34084]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #420 [AotW citation 34085]