ATKINS, Joseph Alexander
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted on 8/2/1861 at Camp Burnett, TN as a Private.
On 8/2/1861 he mustered into "F" Co. KY 4th Infantry
(date and method of discharge not given)
He was listed as: Detailed (date and place not stated) (Detailed fifer)
Born 23 December 1842 in Columbia, Adair Co., family of Hugh and Eliza Jane Gilmer Atkins; store clerk in father's saddle shop in 1860 census.
Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone. Detailed as company fifer, entitled to pay as Musician. Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; Peachtree, Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro and the mounted campaign. Paroled at Washington, GA, 7 May 1865. Took the Oath of Allegiance in Nashville, 20 May 1865.
Married Sue J. Harris, 4 November 1869, in Lebanon. Settled in Lebanon, where he worked as an accountant and assistant operations director for a distillery. Retired in Louisville and died there, of pulmonary edema, 6 August 1908. Kentucky Confederate widow's pension file number 4567.
Sources: http://www.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/cof4ky.htm
http://www.civilwardata.com/active/hdsquery.dll?SoldierHistory?C&222411
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted on 8/2/1861 at Camp Burnett, TN as a Private.
On 8/2/1861 he mustered into "F" Co. KY 4th Infantry
(date and method of discharge not given)
He was listed as: Detailed (date and place not stated) (Detailed fifer)
Born 23 December 1842 in Columbia, Adair Co., family of Hugh and Eliza Jane Gilmer Atkins; store clerk in father's saddle shop in 1860 census.
Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone. Detailed as company fifer, entitled to pay as Musician. Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; Peachtree, Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro and the mounted campaign. Paroled at Washington, GA, 7 May 1865. Took the Oath of Allegiance in Nashville, 20 May 1865.
Married Sue J. Harris, 4 November 1869, in Lebanon. Settled in Lebanon, where he worked as an accountant and assistant operations director for a distillery. Retired in Louisville and died there, of pulmonary edema, 6 August 1908. Kentucky Confederate widow's pension file number 4567.
Sources: http://www.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/cof4ky.htm
http://www.civilwardata.com/active/hdsquery.dll?SoldierHistory?C&222411
ATKINS, Joseph Alexander
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted on 8/2/1861 at Camp Burnett, TN as a Private.
On 8/2/1861 he mustered into "F" Co. KY 4th Infantry
(date and method of discharge not given)
He was listed as: Detailed (date and place not stated) (Detailed fifer)
Born 23 December 1842 in Columbia, Adair Co., family of Hugh and Eliza Jane Gilmer Atkins; store clerk in father's saddle shop in 1860 census.
Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone. Detailed as company fifer, entitled to pay as Musician. Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; Peachtree, Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro and the mounted campaign. Paroled at Washington, GA, 7 May 1865. Took the Oath of Allegiance in Nashville, 20 May 1865.
Married Sue J. Harris, 4 November 1869, in Lebanon. Settled in Lebanon, where he worked as an accountant and assistant operations director for a distillery. Retired in Louisville and died there, of pulmonary edema, 6 August 1908. Kentucky Confederate widow's pension file number 4567.
Sources: http://www.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/cof4ky.htm
http://www.civilwardata.com/active/hdsquery.dll?SoldierHistory?C&222411
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted on 8/2/1861 at Camp Burnett, TN as a Private.
On 8/2/1861 he mustered into "F" Co. KY 4th Infantry
(date and method of discharge not given)
He was listed as: Detailed (date and place not stated) (Detailed fifer)
Born 23 December 1842 in Columbia, Adair Co., family of Hugh and Eliza Jane Gilmer Atkins; store clerk in father's saddle shop in 1860 census.
Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone. Detailed as company fifer, entitled to pay as Musician. Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; Peachtree, Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro and the mounted campaign. Paroled at Washington, GA, 7 May 1865. Took the Oath of Allegiance in Nashville, 20 May 1865.
Married Sue J. Harris, 4 November 1869, in Lebanon. Settled in Lebanon, where he worked as an accountant and assistant operations director for a distillery. Retired in Louisville and died there, of pulmonary edema, 6 August 1908. Kentucky Confederate widow's pension file number 4567.
Sources: http://www.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/cof4ky.htm
http://www.civilwardata.com/active/hdsquery.dll?SoldierHistory?C&222411
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