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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph B. Gathright

(1843 - 1884)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was in Company A. Age 19 on enlistment in May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He served with his unit through the War.

References & notes

Basic information from Southern Historical Society1, which also has his last name as Garthright. Life dates from family genelogists.

Birth

1843 in VA

Death

12/25/1884

Notes

1   From an annotated roster of Company A, 15th Virginia Infantry by Captain M.W. Hazlewood, published originally in the Richmond Dispatch of 19 August 1894.
Southern Historical Society, and Rev. John William Jones, Robert Alonzo Brock, James Power Smith, editors, Southern Historical Society Papers, 52 Vols., Richmond: Southern Historical Society, 1876-1959, Vol. 21, pp. 48 - 54  [AotW citation 8856]