Joshua Vincent | Jacob R. Woods
Joshua Vincent
*Joshua J Vincent
*Joshua J Vincent joined 3rd Alabama Cavalry, Company F on 9 March 1862 in Perry County, Alabama at the age of 36 years. He was enlisted, by Capt. Samuel Jennings Murphy, as a private for 12 months.
He was also listed by the names: JJ Vinson, Joshua A Vincent and Joshua J Vincent and James J Vincent.
Notes from J.J.'s Compiled Military Service Records lists that he appeared on the regular company muster roll for:
30 Apr to 30 June 1862
While the F Company was fighting the battle at Shelbyville Tenn., JJ was captured on the 27 of June 1863. He then began a long journey that moved him from one prison camp to the next. He was first Forwarded from Franklin, Tenn. to Nashville on the apparently that trip took for the 30 of June to the 1 of July. On the 3 of July he was moved again, from Nashville to Louisville, Kentucky. Three days later he was sent on to Camp Chase in Ohio. A week after that, on the 14 July, he departed Camp Chase and arrived in Fort Delaware in Delaware on the same day. I think that he must have ridden the train.
From 27 June 1863 until 18 Feb 1865 he was in Union prison camps. On the 18 Feb 1865 J.J. was paroled at Point Lookout Maryland.
J. J. came from Maryland and in 1860 J.J. age 34 was living in the same household as Thomas S Driskell age 49, also from Maryland.
Thomas and J. J. were both merchants in Plantersville, Perry County, Alabama.
It is also possible that they enlisted in the Cavalry at the same time.
I feel that it is possible that Thomas Driskell is the T. U. Duskell mentioned on the Civil War Service card at the Alabama State Archives.
According to the card T U was also in this 3rd Alabama Cavalry Company F. But I have not found a Compiled Military Service Record for Thomas Driskell or TU Duskell. At this point the only military record that I have for Thomas is the one card.
In the Perry county marriages I found where
Thomas Stanford Driskell married Emily McGee on the 24 Feb 1838. Also Joshua Vincent married Caroline McGee on the 8 May 1854. Caroline and Emily were probably related but by 1860 Caroline was no longer living with JJ so she was probably dead.
JJ owned one 9 year old male slave in 1860. Perhaps later I can find the name of this boy.
Sources
1. United States. Record and Pension Office., Compiled Service records of Confederate soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Alabama., Washington C. C. : The National Archives, 1961-1962.Third Alabama Cavalry R-Z 1861-1865 FHL#0880341.
2. 1860 Federal Census, Alabama, Perry County, Plantersville Beat, page 52.
3. Perry County marriages
4. Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama Confederate Service Cards. Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.Microfilm cards "From an 8 x 5 card file maintained by the Alabama Department of Archives and History from the early 1900s until 1982. As staff came across information related to Alabama individuals during the American Civil War a card was created. Information on individuals exempted from military service or who served in the militia or home guard is included. If new information was discovered from another source, another card was created. Multiple cards for an individual often exist. Sources include muster rolls, governors' correspondence, veterans' censuses, manuscript collections, newspapers and pension records. Names, places and events are often inconsistently spelled."
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By Susette Cook