| Name:
COTTON, JOSEPH WILLIAM (Confederate Census of 1907) or WILBERN (grave
marker); also listed on muster roll as J. W. Colton |
| Rank:
Private |
| Enlisted:
7 October 1861 in Daleville, Dale County |
| Service History:
Absent sick: Winchester, Va1862/05/25; Cross Keys, Va
1862/06/27; Cold Harbor, 1862/06/27; Malvern Hill, 1862/07/02;
Gettysburg 1863/07/02-03. Present: Cedar Mt,1862/08/09; Hazel River,
1862/08/23; Manassas Junction, 1862/08/27; ManassasPlains,1862/08/28-30,
Chantilly,1862/09/01; Harpers Ferry, 1862/09/13; Battle
Mount,Va1863/07/24; Chickamauga,Ga1863/09/19; Spotsylvania
1864/05/08&12; Cold Harbor 1864/06/03; Chester Station,1864/06/17;
Deep Bottom, 1864/08/14; Fredericksburg,Va1862/12/13; Suffolk, Va
1863/05/03. Wounded:Sharpsburg,1862/09/17;Chickamauga,Ga 1863/09/20.
Absent Wounded: Shepards Town,Va 1862/09/19; Raccoon Mt, Tenn1863/10/27;
Lookout Valley, Tenn1863/10/28; Ft Gilmer, 1864/09/29. Severely wounded:
Fussell Mill,1864/08/16. Absent on furlough: Camel Station, 1863/11/16;
Knoxville, Tenn 1863/11/20&29; Dandridge, 1864/01/16; Ft
Harrison1864/09/30; Darbytown1864/10/07 Darbytown Road,1864/10/13;
Williamsburg, Rd 1864/10/27. Paroled at Macon, Georgia, 6 May 1865. |
| Date of Birth: 14
September 1841 |
Place of Birth:
Randolph County, Georgia |
| Date of Death: 7
November 1913 |
Place of Death:
Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama |
| Buried:
County Line Baptist Church Cemetery, Coffee/Dale County, Alabama |
| Father:
Seth Joseph Cotton (b 1790 in Chatham County, North Carolina, d in Dale
County, Alabama; son of William and Mary Cotton) |
| Mother:
Mary King (b 28 December 1799 in North Carolina, d in Dale County,
Alabama; daughter of Drewry and Sarah King) |
| Spouse(s):
(1) Sarah J. Kemp (b abt 1848 in Georgia, d 21 December 1889 in
Coffee County, Alabama; daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Kemp, (2) Elva A. //
(b abt 1845 in Georgia, d abt 1915) |
| Children:
John D., Anglish or Anguish, Sarah J., five others |
| Occupation:
Laborer |
| Residence(s):
Daleville, Dale County; Enterprise, Coffee County |
| Other:
Brother of Henry Cotton, Elbert
Cotton, and John Cotton. Another
brother, Seth Aaron Cotton, served in Co D of the 53rd Alabama Cavalry,
Partisan Rangers; lost his right arm in 1864; buried at Providence
Baptist Church in Dale County. The William G. Cotton who enlisted on 8
March 1862 in Daleville in Co G of the 33rd Alabama Infantry, age 39, is
probably another brother, William George Cotton. |
| Photographs: (Rt)
Joseph Wilbern Cotton; (Below) Sarah J. Cotton, Elva A. Cotton; (Bottom)
Seth Joseph and Mary Cotton (parents of Joseph W. Cotton)
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| Submitter:
Georgia V. Fleming |
E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net |
