The son of Henry W. Glisson, Jr., Joseph Glisson, born in 1831 or 1832 in Bulloch County, Georgia, was a farmer and Confederate veteran. He served in Company B of Georgia's Hardwick Mounted Rifles who defended the Georgia coast and Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River. He was later transferred to Company H, 7th Georgia Cavalry, when the Hardwick Mounted Rifles was absorbed into the new 7th Georgia Cavalry. He suffered a sabre wound, perhaps at the Battle of Trevillian Station in Virginia in 1864, that left him partially disabled. The 7th Georgia Cavalry was with General Robert E. Lee when he surrendered at Appomattox in 1865, but by then Joseph was at home recovering from wounds. Family tradition says that when he walked home toward the end of the war and was spotted by his family, that he told them to keep their distance and prepare a bath for him in the yard. Because his uniform was covered in filth and lice, he burned it in the yard.

Joseph married Mary Ann ("Pollie") Strickland Glisson on October 22, 1850 in Chatham County, Georgia, and they had twelve children: Manie Veranda Glisson McClelland, John Harmon Glisson, Sr., Mary ("Molley") Jane Glisson Burnsed, Hiram M. Glisson, Horace Winton Glisson, Josephine Glisson, Rowan (Roan) Glisson, Susannah "Susan" A. Glisson Bacon, Matthew Madison Glisson, Florine E. Glisson, Joseph Sidney Glisson, and Bazzel O. Glisson. He was age 38 or 39 when he died, perhaps of complications from war wounds, in November 1871 in Bulloch County and is buried in an unmarked grave at Upper Black Creek Primitive Baptist Cemetery near Ivanhoe (Briar Patch), in Bulloch County. His heritage was Irish. I hope one of his descendants will add his photo to this site.

Thanks so much to descendant, granddaughter Nevada McClelland Bell, for much of this information. Any errors, however, are mine alone. Please go to the "edit" link on this site with any corrections or additions.