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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph Colley

(c. 1833 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 24th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 27 year old farmer on his father's place at Mount Yanah in White County, GA. He enlisted in White County on 24 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 24th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, by 12 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 9 October, furloughed for 30 days on 15 October, and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.

He was court martialed in June 1863, charges and outcome not found. He was captured again, at Strasburg, VA on 19 October 1864 and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 17 March 1865, when he was paroled and sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. There is no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1833 in GA

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 34263]

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: #227 [AotW citation 34264]

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