Joseph Godfrey Barclift

In 1860 he was a 22 year old school teacher living with his parents, 2 brothers, and 11 slaves on their farm at Durant's Neck in Perquimans County, NC. He enlisted in Hertford, NC on 16 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 27th North Carolina Infantry. The company was originally formed as a cavalry unit, but converted to infantry at the organization of the regiment. They served as an artillery company from 1 September to about February 1862.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

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. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 11 October, sent to the parole camp there on 18 October, and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.

He was wounded in the right wrist at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 October 1863, but was back on duty by December. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant on 1 September 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, NC on 26 April 1865.

By 1870 he was a farm worker at New Hope near Hertford in Perquimans County but in 1880 was a carpenter at Nixtown in Pasquotank County, NC. In 1900 he was again a farmer back at New Hope, NC.

His service from the Roster1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Rebecca White (-1868) in September 1865 and they had a son Hugh. He married again, Mary Susan DeShield (1848-1926) in 1870 and they had 4 sons.

01/10/1838; Perquimans County, NC

03/17/1906; Perquimans County, NC; burial in New Hope United Methodist Church Cemetery, New Hope, NC