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Note: N391 He is listed as the second son of Elizabeth in 1840 and was the first child born in Georgia. He was born between 1832-34, and was still living at his mother's home in 1860, the oldest male at home. He lists his occupation as a farmer. Joseph apparently never married. When the War began, Joseph joined Company H, 16th Regiment Georgia, Volunteer Infantry as a private. No date as when enlisted. The only entries on his war records are that he was admitted to the General Hospital No. 1, Richmond, Virginia, August 21, 1862, and returned to duty Nov 27, 1862. He was admitted to the Chimorazo Hospital, No. 2, Richmond, Virginia, March 27, 1863 for disease of the bowels. He died April 12, 1863. He had $3.00 on him when he died. The following is a passage from the book, THE CIVIL WAR, written by Ward, Burns, & Burns, 1990, page 298-300. When the war began there were just 16 army hospitals in the entire North. By its end, the Union army was running more than 350 hospitals, the Confederacy 154. The biggest and best, North or South, was Chimorazo at Richmond, with 8,000 beds, 5 soup houses, 5 ice houses, 200 dairy cattle, a herd of goats, a 400-keg brewery, and a bakery that turned out 10,000 loaves of bread a day. But even the most up-to-date institutions could do very little. The patients "would see that the doctor gave them up," a Confederate steward recalled, "and would ask me about it. I would tell them the truth. I told one man that and he asked, 'How long?' I said, 'Not over twenty minutes.' He did not show any fear. They never do. He put his hand up so and closed his eyes with his own fingers and he stretched himself out and crossed his arms over his breast. 'Now, fix me,' he said. I pinned the toes of his stockings together. That was the way we lay corpses out, and he died in a few minutes. His face looked as pleasant as if he was asleep. And many is the time the boys have fixed themselves that way before they died."
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