Actual burial here.
Died in Point Lookout, Maryland from a wound received in battle at Hatcher's Run on February 6, 1865. He was only 18.
Contributor, Larry Burden was kind enough to supply the family with the following historical information.
Joseph Valley was born in New Brunswick in about 1846 (In the 1850 Census, he is listed as Jotham Valley, age 4, born in New Brunswick, and in 1860 as age 13, born in New Brunswick), the son of Joel and Matilda Valley. The family moved in 1847 to Blaine, Aroostook county, Maine where father Joseph was naturalized in September 1856.
On Oct. 20, 1864, Joseph R. Valley, an 18-year old blue-eyed farmer, signed an agreement to serve in the 20th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, Company I, as a substitute. Jonathan D. Gove, Esq. of Linneus, ME, also signed this agreement, which would allow Gove to remain in the town of Linneus, to reach its "quota", and Valley to go to war.
He remained with the 20th, experiencing its skirmishes around Petersburg the remainder of Fall and Winter 1864-65. Sometime in late 1864 a volunteer attached to the 9th Corps Christian Commission, Warren Atwood, reported that he had written a letter for Joseph Valley to the soldier's relatives back home in New Brunswick recording that Pvt. Valley had been wounded in the neck "not bad."
At the battle of Hatcher's Run on FEB. 6, 1865, Valley received a gunshot wound in his right thigh. He was sent immediately by medical transport ship to Hammond Hospital's Ward 3, but he did not recover from his wound. Surgeon Jonathan VanSant reported the death of Joseph R. Valley on March 3, 1865. According to official reports by both VanSant and Lt. Hiram Morse of Co. I, Pvt. Valley never received Army pay up to that date. He had, however, been supplied with $39.36 worth of clothing. These officials reported that at his death, Pvt. Valley left no effects.
Joseph R. Valley was buried in the Union Cemetery at Pt. Lookout, in Scotland, Maryland in grave 385. He was later disinterred and buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Section 13 Grave 11756.
A family marker for him was placed in the Tapley Cemetery, in Blaine, Aroostook County, ME.
Died in Point Lookout, Maryland from a wound received in battle at Hatcher's Run on February 6, 1865. He was only 18.
Contributor, Larry Burden was kind enough to supply the family with the following historical information.
Joseph Valley was born in New Brunswick in about 1846 (In the 1850 Census, he is listed as Jotham Valley, age 4, born in New Brunswick, and in 1860 as age 13, born in New Brunswick), the son of Joel and Matilda Valley. The family moved in 1847 to Blaine, Aroostook county, Maine where father Joseph was naturalized in September 1856.
On Oct. 20, 1864, Joseph R. Valley, an 18-year old blue-eyed farmer, signed an agreement to serve in the 20th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, Company I, as a substitute. Jonathan D. Gove, Esq. of Linneus, ME, also signed this agreement, which would allow Gove to remain in the town of Linneus, to reach its "quota", and Valley to go to war.
He remained with the 20th, experiencing its skirmishes around Petersburg the remainder of Fall and Winter 1864-65. Sometime in late 1864 a volunteer attached to the 9th Corps Christian Commission, Warren Atwood, reported that he had written a letter for Joseph Valley to the soldier's relatives back home in New Brunswick recording that Pvt. Valley had been wounded in the neck "not bad."
At the battle of Hatcher's Run on FEB. 6, 1865, Valley received a gunshot wound in his right thigh. He was sent immediately by medical transport ship to Hammond Hospital's Ward 3, but he did not recover from his wound. Surgeon Jonathan VanSant reported the death of Joseph R. Valley on March 3, 1865. According to official reports by both VanSant and Lt. Hiram Morse of Co. I, Pvt. Valley never received Army pay up to that date. He had, however, been supplied with $39.36 worth of clothing. These officials reported that at his death, Pvt. Valley left no effects.
Joseph R. Valley was buried in the Union Cemetery at Pt. Lookout, in Scotland, Maryland in grave 385. He was later disinterred and buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Section 13 Grave 11756.
A family marker for him was placed in the Tapley Cemetery, in Blaine, Aroostook County, ME.
Actual burial here.
Died in Point Lookout, Maryland from a wound received in battle at Hatcher's Run on February 6, 1865. He was only 18.
Contributor, Larry Burden was kind enough to supply the family with the following historical information.
Joseph Valley was born in New Brunswick in about 1846 (In the 1850 Census, he is listed as Jotham Valley, age 4, born in New Brunswick, and in 1860 as age 13, born in New Brunswick), the son of Joel and Matilda Valley. The family moved in 1847 to Blaine, Aroostook county, Maine where father Joseph was naturalized in September 1856.
On Oct. 20, 1864, Joseph R. Valley, an 18-year old blue-eyed farmer, signed an agreement to serve in the 20th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, Company I, as a substitute. Jonathan D. Gove, Esq. of Linneus, ME, also signed this agreement, which would allow Gove to remain in the town of Linneus, to reach its "quota", and Valley to go to war.
He remained with the 20th, experiencing its skirmishes around Petersburg the remainder of Fall and Winter 1864-65. Sometime in late 1864 a volunteer attached to the 9th Corps Christian Commission, Warren Atwood, reported that he had written a letter for Joseph Valley to the soldier's relatives back home in New Brunswick recording that Pvt. Valley had been wounded in the neck "not bad."
At the battle of Hatcher's Run on FEB. 6, 1865, Valley received a gunshot wound in his right thigh. He was sent immediately by medical transport ship to Hammond Hospital's Ward 3, but he did not recover from his wound. Surgeon Jonathan VanSant reported the death of Joseph R. Valley on March 3, 1865. According to official reports by both VanSant and Lt. Hiram Morse of Co. I, Pvt. Valley never received Army pay up to that date. He had, however, been supplied with $39.36 worth of clothing. These officials reported that at his death, Pvt. Valley left no effects.
Joseph R. Valley was buried in the Union Cemetery at Pt. Lookout, in Scotland, Maryland in grave 385. He was later disinterred and buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Section 13 Grave 11756.
A family marker for him was placed in the Tapley Cemetery, in Blaine, Aroostook County, ME.
Died in Point Lookout, Maryland from a wound received in battle at Hatcher's Run on February 6, 1865. He was only 18.
Contributor, Larry Burden was kind enough to supply the family with the following historical information.
Joseph Valley was born in New Brunswick in about 1846 (In the 1850 Census, he is listed as Jotham Valley, age 4, born in New Brunswick, and in 1860 as age 13, born in New Brunswick), the son of Joel and Matilda Valley. The family moved in 1847 to Blaine, Aroostook county, Maine where father Joseph was naturalized in September 1856.
On Oct. 20, 1864, Joseph R. Valley, an 18-year old blue-eyed farmer, signed an agreement to serve in the 20th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, Company I, as a substitute. Jonathan D. Gove, Esq. of Linneus, ME, also signed this agreement, which would allow Gove to remain in the town of Linneus, to reach its "quota", and Valley to go to war.
He remained with the 20th, experiencing its skirmishes around Petersburg the remainder of Fall and Winter 1864-65. Sometime in late 1864 a volunteer attached to the 9th Corps Christian Commission, Warren Atwood, reported that he had written a letter for Joseph Valley to the soldier's relatives back home in New Brunswick recording that Pvt. Valley had been wounded in the neck "not bad."
At the battle of Hatcher's Run on FEB. 6, 1865, Valley received a gunshot wound in his right thigh. He was sent immediately by medical transport ship to Hammond Hospital's Ward 3, but he did not recover from his wound. Surgeon Jonathan VanSant reported the death of Joseph R. Valley on March 3, 1865. According to official reports by both VanSant and Lt. Hiram Morse of Co. I, Pvt. Valley never received Army pay up to that date. He had, however, been supplied with $39.36 worth of clothing. These officials reported that at his death, Pvt. Valley left no effects.
Joseph R. Valley was buried in the Union Cemetery at Pt. Lookout, in Scotland, Maryland in grave 385. He was later disinterred and buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Section 13 Grave 11756.
A family marker for him was placed in the Tapley Cemetery, in Blaine, Aroostook County, ME.
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