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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph Parham

(1836 - 1884)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company H, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 19 May 1864 and a prisoner at Elmira, NY until transferred to James River, VA for exchange on 10 March 1865.

After the War

In 1880 he was a farmer in Sumter County, GA, but moved to Sumter County, FL in December 1881.

References & notes

His service from Henderson,1 as Joseph Parkman, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Joseph Parram. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1880, and his widow's 1903 and 1909 pension applications. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Queen Ann Elizabeth Murray (1839-1910) in March 1867 in Sumter County, GA, and they had 3 children.

Birth

07/26/1836 in NC

Death

01/17/1884; Oxford, FL; burial in Pine Level Cemetery, Oxford, FL

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7305]

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 28341]

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