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(c. 1832 - ?)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 28 year old turpentine worker living with his brother Benjamin, next door to Mourning and 3 other sisters at Nashville in Nash County, NC. He enlisted in Nash County, NC on 10 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 30th North Carolina 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, a prisoner at Fort Delaware, then transferred on 2 October to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 9 October and listed as a deserter there on 25 October. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.
He was captured again, on 22 May 1864 at Hanover Court House, VA, and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 15 March 1865, then transferred south for exchange.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3; one record says he was captured on South Mountain on 14 September 1862. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860; he may have been Joseph John (or John Joseph) Williams.
Birth
c. 1832 in NC
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 34514]
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: #63 [AotW citation 34515]