Joseph Mapp
Private Company K 7th U.S. Colored Infantry
DESCRIPTION:
Age 28 Height: 5 feet 2 1/2 inches Complexion: Black
Eyes: Grey Hair: Black Place of Birth: Accomack County, VA
Occupation: Farmer
ENLISTMENT:
When: November 6, 1863
Where: Record is hard to read, but Joseph may have been recruited off of an oyster fleet near the mouth of Patuxent River (http://www.2ndmdinfantryus.org/USCT7.html).
By Whom: Colonel William Birney Term: 3 Years
Mustered-In: November 12, 1863 at Camp Stanton, Benedict, Charles County, MD
REMARKS:
Died of Cholera in a military hospital located at Indianola, Texas on October 12, 1866. His regiment mustered-out on October 14, 1866 and arrived in Baltimore November 4th, and disbanded on the 15th.
SERVICE INFORMATION (Summary):
7th Regiment Infantry (http://civilwararchive.com/unioncol.htm)
Organized at Baltimore, Md., September 26 to November 12, 1863. Duty at Camp Benedict, Md., until March, 1864. Ordered to Portsmouth, Va., March 4, thence to Hilton Head, S.C., March 7-10, and to Jacksonville, Fla., March 14-15. Attached to Post of Jacksonville, Fla., District of Florida, Dept. of the South, to July, 1864. District of Hilton Head, S.C., Dept. of the South, July, 1864. Jacksonville, Fla., District of Florida, Dept. of the South, to August, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Corps, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to December, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 25th Corps, to January, 1866. Dept. of Texas to October, 1866.
SERVICE.--Duty at Jacksonville, Fla., until June, 1864. Cedar Creek April 2. Near Jacksonville May 6. Near Camp Finnegan May 25. Near Jacksonville May 28. Expedition to Camp Milton May 31-June 3. Camp Milton June 2. Moved to Hilton Head, S.C., June 27. Expedition to North Edisto River and Johns and James Islands July 2-10. Near Winter's Point July 3. King's Creek July 3. Skirmishes on James Island July 5 and 7. Burden's Causeway, Johns Island, July 9. Moved to Jacksonville July 15. Expedition to Florida & Gulf Railroad July 22-August 5. Moved to Bermuda Hundred, Va., August 6-11. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond August, 1864, to April, 1865. Demonstration north of James River August 16-20. Russell's Mills August 16. Strawberry Plains August 16-18. Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30. Darbytown Road October 13. Battle of Fair Oaks October 27-28. Near Richmond October 28. In trenches before Richmond until March 27, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 27-April 9. Hatcher's Run March 29-31. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Moved to Petersburg April 11, and duty there until May 24. Moved to Indianola, Texas, May 24-June 23. Duty on the Rio Grande and at various points in the Dept. of Texas, until October, 1866. Moved to Baltimore, Md., October 14-November 4. Mustered out October 13, 1866, and discharged at Baltimore, Md., November 15, 1866.
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 84 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 307 Enlisted men by disease. Total 393.
GENEALOGY: Other than Joseph’s Civil War service records, I could not find any information concerning him in the US Census, Virginia Marriage/Birth/Death records or any other records.
