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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph H. Todd

(c. 1835 - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 51st Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Fort Gaines in Clay County, GA on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 51st Georgia Infantry. He was sick in Richmond, VA hospitals from 12 to 20 August.

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 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange, arriving there on 6 October. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 15 October, sent to the parole camp there on 28 October, and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #2 in Richmond with typhoid pneumonia on 19 January 1863 and died there on 28 January.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, indexed under James H Todd. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1835 in NC

Death

01/28/1863; Richmond, VA

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 34854]

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: #228 [AotW citation 34855]

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