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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph W. Spradlin

(1829 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A married 33 year old farmer, he enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was discharged on 11 September 1861 but enlisted again, in Richmond, VA on 1 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. He died of wounds soon after, probably in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in Sharpsburg, then a field hospital.

The rest of the War

He was originally buried "in Rev. J. J. Adams town lot, back of the M. E. [Methodist Episcopal Church] Graveyard" in the town of Sharpsburg.

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett. 1. His service from his Compiled Service Records2 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.3 There is a memorial stone for him in the Salem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Franklin, GA, online from Findagrave.

Birth

1829; Fayette County, GA

Death

09/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4517]

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 32938]

3 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32939]

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