Shared Note: - Joseph enlisted for three years at Detroit, Michigan, on May 28, 186
1, in Battery A of the Michigan Light Artillery. He gave his age as twent y-one although he was actually twenty at the time. His name appears on mu ster rolls a private through 1861, 1862, and much of 1863. He was kill ed in action on September 19, 1863 at Chickamauga, Georgia. Accordi ng to his military records, his body was left in the field.