Joseph A. Knight m. Elizabeth Louisa Victoria Reeves (widow of E. Wood).
Pvt. Knight served in Co H, 1st Texas Infantry, part of Hood's Texas Brigade. The 1st Texas served under Generals Hood, J.B. Robertson, and J.Gregg. The regiment fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor except when it was detached with Longstreet at Suffolk, Chickamauga, and Knoxville. It was involved in the Petersburg siege north and south of the James River and later the Appomattox Campaign.
Was recruited into Hood's Texas Brigade, March 20 1862 at age 19, along with his brothers Andrew J.(18), John A.(26), and William H. (24). Josephus was wounded at Manassus in 1862, again at Gettysburg July, 1863, and awarded the Texas Gold
Star(The Gold Star was the highest award for bravery in the Confederacy) for bravery in 1865, and paroled April 12, 1865 at Appomattox where he joined the other confederates and General Lee at the surrender. Two of his brothers chose not to surrender but escaped in the dark of night in the hopes of continuing the fight in South Carolina. They were disappointed to find that the South Carolina army had also surrendered. They then drifted back home to Texas.
Pvt. Knight served in Co H, 1st Texas Infantry, part of Hood's Texas Brigade. The 1st Texas served under Generals Hood, J.B. Robertson, and J.Gregg. The regiment fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor except when it was detached with Longstreet at Suffolk, Chickamauga, and Knoxville. It was involved in the Petersburg siege north and south of the James River and later the Appomattox Campaign.
Was recruited into Hood's Texas Brigade, March 20 1862 at age 19, along with his brothers Andrew J.(18), John A.(26), and William H. (24). Josephus was wounded at Manassus in 1862, again at Gettysburg July, 1863, and awarded the Texas Gold
Star(The Gold Star was the highest award for bravery in the Confederacy) for bravery in 1865, and paroled April 12, 1865 at Appomattox where he joined the other confederates and General Lee at the surrender. Two of his brothers chose not to surrender but escaped in the dark of night in the hopes of continuing the fight in South Carolina. They were disappointed to find that the South Carolina army had also surrendered. They then drifted back home to Texas.
Joseph A. Knight m. Elizabeth Louisa Victoria Reeves (widow of E. Wood).
Pvt. Knight served in Co H, 1st Texas Infantry, part of Hood's Texas Brigade. The 1st Texas served under Generals Hood, J.B. Robertson, and J.Gregg. The regiment fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor except when it was detached with Longstreet at Suffolk, Chickamauga, and Knoxville. It was involved in the Petersburg siege north and south of the James River and later the Appomattox Campaign.
Was recruited into Hood's Texas Brigade, March 20 1862 at age 19, along with his brothers Andrew J.(18), John A.(26), and William H. (24). Josephus was wounded at Manassus in 1862, again at Gettysburg July, 1863, and awarded the Texas Gold
Star(The Gold Star was the highest award for bravery in the Confederacy) for bravery in 1865, and paroled April 12, 1865 at Appomattox where he joined the other confederates and General Lee at the surrender. Two of his brothers chose not to surrender but escaped in the dark of night in the hopes of continuing the fight in South Carolina. They were disappointed to find that the South Carolina army had also surrendered. They then drifted back home to Texas.
Pvt. Knight served in Co H, 1st Texas Infantry, part of Hood's Texas Brigade. The 1st Texas served under Generals Hood, J.B. Robertson, and J.Gregg. The regiment fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor except when it was detached with Longstreet at Suffolk, Chickamauga, and Knoxville. It was involved in the Petersburg siege north and south of the James River and later the Appomattox Campaign.
Was recruited into Hood's Texas Brigade, March 20 1862 at age 19, along with his brothers Andrew J.(18), John A.(26), and William H. (24). Josephus was wounded at Manassus in 1862, again at Gettysburg July, 1863, and awarded the Texas Gold
Star(The Gold Star was the highest award for bravery in the Confederacy) for bravery in 1865, and paroled April 12, 1865 at Appomattox where he joined the other confederates and General Lee at the surrender. Two of his brothers chose not to surrender but escaped in the dark of night in the hopes of continuing the fight in South Carolina. They were disappointed to find that the South Carolina army had also surrendered. They then drifted back home to Texas.
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