Joshua O. Johns, Private, Company E, 8th Louisiana Infantry, enlisted July 11, 1861 at Camp Pickens, Manassas Va. by Captain Lester for the war, recorded absent at the Jan/Feb, 1863 muster, detailed as Courier for Gen’l Jackson, captured at Chancellorsville, Va. May 2, 1863, admitted Lincoln U. S. A. General Hospital, Washington, D. C. May 7, gunshot wound, minie ball flesh wound right side of scalp, sent to Old Capitol Prison, Washington, D. C., May 22, paroled June 10, 1863, recorded as disabled on August 5, 1863, detached and detailed August 12, 1863 as Courier, Head Quarters, 2nd Army Corps, paid September 9, 1863 at Orange C. H. extra duty pay for 192 days at 25 cts/day, $48.00 and for use of private horse at 40 cts/day, $76.80, transferred December 10, 1863 to Captain Taylor’s Company C Dep. of S. G. & C./Richardson’s Battalion of Cavalry, description on enlistment: Single 23 year old Farmer, born in Mississippi, resident of Winnsboro, La.

M320: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Louisiana

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Joshua O. Johns, Private, Company C, 39th Battalion Virginia Cavalry,* enlisted December 21, 1863 at Orange C. H. by Captain Brown for the war, paroled at Appomattox Court House, Va., April 9, 1865, horse and equipments, no other records

* This organization was also known as the 13th Battalion Virginia Cavalry and as Richardson’s Battalion of Scouts, Guides and Couriers

M324: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia