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"Joe"
(1841 - 1911)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Choctaw, MS, he enlisted in Carrollton, MS on 29 April 1861 and mustered in Lynchburg, VA on 13 May as a Private in Company K, 11th Mississippi Infantry.
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 then probably sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore for exchange.
He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863, was briefly at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, then a prisoner at Fort Delaware until he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released on 11 June 1865.
After the War
In 1900 he was a farm manager in Holmes County, MS and was managing a plantation in Attala County, MS in 1910.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850, 1900 & 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Rebecca Lafayette “Fayette” Durham (1840-1912) in October 1873
Birth
10/14/1841 in AL
Death
11/07/1911; Kosciusko, MS; burial in Kosciusko City Cemetery, Kosciusko, MS
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 34092]
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: #2 [AotW citation 34093]