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Company C, 3rd Battalion, South Carolina Light Artillery, Confederate States Army
He was a 23-year old laborer on the farm of his first cousin, Morris McRae Hatchell, in 1860 Marion District, South Carolina, (South Carolina 1860 Census, Marion District, Page 35), enlisted at age 23 on 20 August 1861 at Camp Johnson (Compiled Service Records, CW0614). His death is not reported by his service record. It discloses that he was captured on 9 Apr 1865 at Blakeley, Alabama, sent to prison at Ship’s Island, Mississippi and transferred to Vicksburg on 1 May 1865. The Memory Roll for Co. C, 3rd Artillery Battalion presents that he died of disease on his way home. No date, place or cause was given (Confederate Historian, Microcopy M16). He was not found in the 1870-1920 census of any state. Fort Blakeley near Mobile, Alabama was the city’s last line of defense. On 9 Apr 1865, after a 13-day siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama, and now ending at Fort Blakely, the enemy forces gathered to assault its works. At 4:00 p.m., the enemy commenced a rapid artillery barrage of the fort and followed it up immediately by a massive infantry attack on it lines, carrying and capturing the fort and almost all of its defenders in less than an hour (Official Records, Series 1, VOl. 49, Chapter 61, Part 1, Page 255). Joel was one of the defenders and was captured. Joel had escaped capture with his brothers at Fort Gaines, Alabama in August 1864 because he was not with them at Fort Gaines, but was rather across the channel four miles away at Fort Powell, which also guarded Mobile Bay. Company C had been divided and separately garrisoned at Fort Powell and Fort Gaines. Fort Powell was safely, but prematurely, evacuated and then destoryed by the Confederates on 5 August 1864. (Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 39, Chapter 51, Part 1, Pages 440-441). He escaped capture there only to be captured this day at Fort Blakeley. Joel had five brothers who also served in the South Carolina Confederate army. Richard Furman, Manley Allen, Silas, Robert H., and Eramus W. Hatchell all served with Joel B. in Co. C, 3rd Arillery Battalion (Confederate State Roster - South Carolina, Hewett). Richard and Allen survived (South Carolina 1880 Census, Marion District, South Carolina, Page 241B); (South Carolina 1880 Census, Darlington District, South Carolina, Page 351D), as did Robert (South Carolina 1990 Census, Florence County, South Carolina, Page 61A). Erasmus W. was captured on 8 Apr 1864 defending Fort Gaines, Mobile Bay, Alabama, and died of typhoid fever on 13 November 1864 in St. Louis Hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana ( Compiled Servie Records, CW0614 in with Robert H Hatchell’s record). ). (Confederate Historian, Microcopy M16). of typhoid fever as a prisoner of war on 13 November 1864 (Confederate Historian, Microcopy M16); (Compiled Service Records, CW0614 in with Robert H. Hatchell’s record). Silas was captured alongide Erasmus on 8 Aug 1864 defending Fort Gaines, Mobile Bay, Alabama and died of dysentery as a prisoner of war on 5 December 1864 (Confederte Historian, Microcopy M16). They were the brothers of Ann, Eliza, Mary C., Frances Elizabeth, Carolyn Serpata, and Addie Aresasa. Richard, Allen, Joel, Robert, Ann, Eliza and Mary C. were the children of William Hatchell and his first wife, Mary Allen Hatchell. Silas, Erasmus, Frances Elizabeth, Nancy Ann, Carolyn, and Addie were the children of William and his second wife, Nancy Ann Wilson Hatchell. (Ancestors Privette, Privette, AWT). Brothers Spencer W. Hatchell, Co. K, 21st SC Infantry and Theodore C. and William Calvin Hatchell, Co. G, 26th SC Infantry, are in some cases shown as the sons also of William and Mary Allen Hatchell, along with Martha A. and Elizabeth Ellender Hatchell. However, census records indicate that they were the sons and daughters of another William Hatchell family in the Pee Dee, South Carolina, William and Mary Hatchell of Darlington District, South Carolina (South Carolina 1850 Census, Darlington District, Pages 305A & 305B); (Holmes Family Tree, hholmes78, Ancestry.com); (Ancestors and Related Families of Kevin L. Privette, Privette, AWT). [2, 3, 4] |
Abt 1838 - Abt 1865 (27 years)
