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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph Hoffman

(1825 - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 35 year old weaver at Columbus, Colorado County, TX. He enlisted there with Lt. Roberdeau on 14 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 5th Texas Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, "left on the field," and captured there.

The rest of the War

He signed paroles at Sharpsburg on 30 September and at Shepherdstown, VA on 25 November 1862. He was "last heard from" at Shepherdstown, VA and "supposed to be dead."

References & notes

His service from Polley,1, who lists him as William, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Ulrich Hoffman. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married (widow) Elizabeth Miller/Muller in June 1860 and took in her 3 children.

Birth

1825 in TX

Death

1862; Shepherdstown, VA

Notes

1 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pp. 332-334 [AotW citation 2499]

2 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 32633]

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