Joseph W. Moore was born in 1837
in Ouachita / Morehouse Parish, Louisiana.
Doctor Joseph MOORE, a 24 year old resident of
Morehouse Parish, enrolled as a private in
Captain J. H. Stevens'' state militia company,
the Morehouse Stars, in early 1862 in Morehouse
Parish. This company was then sent to Memphis,
Tennessee where they were officially transferred
from Louisiana state service into Confederate
service on March 17, 1862. Sent up the
Mississippi River by steamboat, they joined
the 12th Louisiana Infantry at Fort Pillow,
Tennessee in late March 1862. DJM was present
for duty with the company until December 2, 1862
when he was left behind sick in the retreat from
Abbeville, Mississippi. He was captured by the
Federals at Oxford, Mississippi on December 4,
1862 and forwarded through Holly Springs to
Memphis and on to the Military Prison at Alton,
Illinois. He reached Alton on January 10, 1863
and died there on March 27, 1863 of pneumonia.
The Register of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors
Who Died in Federal Prisons and Military
Hospitals in the North compiled and published
by the United States War Department in 1912
lists D. Joseph Moore, Private, Company F, 12th
Louisiana and gives his date of death as March 27,
1863 and his place of burial as the Confederate
Cemetery at Alton.
The Confederate prisoners who died at Alton were
buried in individually marked graves in a field
next to the prison during the war, but within ten
years the wooden markers had all been used for
firewood. DJM was buried in this Confederate
cemetery at Alton, Illinois and his name is listed
on large Confederate memorial there along with
1,534 other prisoners who died at Alton. There is
a website you can access for Alton:
http://www.altonweb.com/history/civilwar/confed
From Hugh Simmons, Webmaster for Morehouse Stars:
I have concluded that DJM was not a medical doctor
since he served continuously as an infantry
private at a time when medical professionals
were desperately needed. But I need family input
to determine if this first name was for real, or
just a nickname given to him in jest. For what it
is worth, one his comrades in Company F is
listed as "Doctor Franklin Day" and we know for
sure that he was not a doctor! Day was also 24 years old.
My reply to Mr. Simmons was that our family does,
indeed, have a habit of addressing men as "Doc" -
and that there is no doubt that "Doctor" Joseph
Moore is our own Joseph.
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