Joseph W. Fletcher
Joseph W. Fletcher was born around 1844 in New Hampshire to Benjamin Fletcher and Lucinda Davis. His father was a carpenter who owned $300 of real estate and $200 of personal property in 1860. The family lived in Nashville, New Hampshire, until the 1850s, when they moved to Chester, Vermont. Fletcher attended school there.
 
He enlisted in the Union army on July 30, 1862, and mustered in as a private in Company H of the 10th Vermont Infantry on September 1. The army stationed the regiment near Washington, D.C., until June 1863, and he was promoted to corporal on October 19, 1862. The men took part in the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, and the Battle of Cold Harbor. He served as part of the regimental color guard, and one comrade described him as a “faithful and devoted soldier” who “never us[ed] profane language or indulg[ed] in the many vices that beset the Soldier.” He died at Cold Harbor on June 1, 1864, reportedly “shot on the first instent while bravly fighting in the defence of his Countrys flag.”
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(960)Fletcher, Joseph W.18441864-06-01
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: Corporal
  • Rank highest: Corporal
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 20

  • (3021) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher, 4 January 1863
  • (5119) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher, 6 January 1862
  • (5120) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher and Lydia U. Fletcher, 24 May 1863
  • (5121) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher, 13 September 1862
  • (5122) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher to Lydia U. Fletcher, 22 September 1863
  • (5123) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher, 6 October 1862
  • (5124) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher, 3 December 1862
  • (5125) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher and Lydia U. Fletcher, 9 February 1863
  • (5126) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher and Lydia U. Fletcher, 7 March 1863
  • (5127) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher and Lydia U. Fletcher, 27 March 1863
  • (5128) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher and Lydia U. Fletcher, 17 November 1863
  • (5129) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher and Lydia U. Fletcher, 21 December 1863
  • (5130) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher and Lydia U. Fletcher, 25 January 1864
  • (5131) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher and Lydia U. Fletcher, 10 February 1864
  • (5132) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher and Lydia U. Fletcher, 28 February 1864
  • (5133) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher and Lydia U. Fletcher, 22 March 1864
  • (5134) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher and Lydia U. Fletcher, 22 March 1864
  • (5135) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher and Lydia U. Fletcher, 8 April 1864
  • (5136) [writer] ~ Joseph W. Fletcher to Carlos C. Fletcher and Lydia U. Fletcher, 20 May 1864
  • (5137) [associated with] ~ William Mahoney to Benjamin Fletcher, 25 June 1864

People - Records: 3

  • (961) Fletcher, Carlos Coolidge is the [sibling of] (960) Fletcher, Joseph W.
  • (964) Fletcher, Lydia Ursula is the [sibling of] (960) Fletcher, Joseph W.
  • (966) Fletcher, Benjamin is the [parent of] (960) Fletcher, Joseph W.

Places - Records: 2

  • (596) [birth] ~ New Hampshire
  • (261) [death] ~ Cold Harbor, Hanover County, Virginia

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (312) [enlisted] [H] ~ 10th Vermont Infantry
SOURCES

1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; William Mahoney to Benjamin Fletcher, 25 June 1864, Nau Collection.