Joel Womack Geoghegan (1836 - 1878)

Born 1836 in Farmville, Virginia

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Died 1878 at about age 42 in Danville, Virginia

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Joel Womack Geoghegan was born in 1836.

Joel Geoghegan, age 14, son of Charles and Elizabeth Geoghegan, is listed among the Free Inhabitants in the 22nd Regiment in the County of Mecklenburg, Virginia, December 2, 1850.

Joel W. Geoghegan is listed as a private, age 25, in Company E, 14 Regiment Confederate Virginia Infantry under Capt. George W. Finley’s company (the Clarksville Blues), June 30, 1861. The Company Muster Rolls list him as a prisoner of war. He was captured at Gettysburg on July 5, 1863, and confined by Gen. Schenck at Fort Delaware. He was exchanged on November 1, 1864, and paroled on May 12, 1865.

Hospital records indicate treatment at Chimborazo Hospital No. 4 in Richmond on February 27, 1865, for fracture of the right forearm, at Chimborazo Hospital No. 3 in Richmond on June 2, 1862, for syphilis, and at the C.S.A. General Hospital in Farmville, Virginia, on November 22, 1862, for rheumatism. ^[1][2]

Joel Womack Geoghegan, son of Charles and Elizabeth Kendall (Evington) Geoghegan, a tobacconist, “met a tragic death in Danville in 1878.”^[3]

He passed away in 1878.

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1. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Confederate Organizations, compiled 1903 - 1927, documenting the period 1861 - 1865; Catalog ID: 586957; Record Group #: 109; Roll #: 548.
2. ↑ U.S. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865. Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865
3. ↑ Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol. IV.

• Joel Womack Geoghegan and his marriage to Virginia Puryear are documented in Virginia Select Marriages, 1785-1940, film number 32551, reference ID p27 n23, Salt Lake City, UT, 2013.

• The U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, lists Joel W. Geoghegan, tobacconist from Clarksville, Virginia, age 25, enlisted 12 May 1861 as a private in Company E, Virginia 14th Infantry.