Joseph Regan

In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents and 8 siblings on their small farm at Lumberton in Robeson County, NC. He enlisted there on 1 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 24th North Carolina Infantry.

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

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862 and was with his company until surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer near Lumberton/Howellsville, NC. He'd retired there by 1920.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Emmaline Matilda "Emma" McGeachy (1842-1894) in November 1865 and they had 6 boys and a girl. He married again, Mary Anne "Mollie" Lewis (1852-1936) in March 1895.

03/10/1841 in NC

01/29/1920; Robeson County, NC; burial in Regan United Methodist Church Cemetery, Robeson County, NC