Name: BELL, JOSEPH H.
Rank: Private
Enlisted: 3 July 1861 at Westville, Dale County
Service History: Absent sick: Winchester, Virginia, Cross Keys, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill; Present: Cedar Mountain, Hazel River, Manassas Junction, Manassas Plains, Chantilly, Harpers Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Chickamauga, Knoxville, Dandridge, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Chester Station, Deep Bottom; Absent on detail: Shepards Town, Gettysburg, Battle Mount, Raccoon Mountain, Lookout Valley, Camel Station; Severely wounded: Fussell Mill 1864/08/16; absent wounded: Ft. Gilmer, Ft. Harrison, Darbytown, Darbytown Road, Williamsburg Road.
Date of Birth: abt 1840	Place of Birth: Georgia
Date of Death: died of wounds rec'd at Fussell's Mill; 1864	Place of Death: Virginia
Buried: Virginia
Father: Jonas Parker Bell (b 19 June 1811 in Tarboro, Edgecomb County, North Carolina, d 4 January 1892 in Bellwood, Geneva County, Alabama)
Mother: Cherry Bryant (b 27 Feb 1819 in Houston, Heard, Georgia, d 8 May 1869 in Bellwood, Geneva, Alabama, daughter of John Lewis Bryant and Rebecca Price)
Spouse(s): Not married
Children: None
Occupation: Farmer
Residence(s): Dale County, Alabama
Other: Claim filed by Jonas P. Bell, father, Daleville, Alabama 1864/11/30.
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Submitter: Georgia V. Fleming	E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net