Information Regarding
    Joseph Baxter White   
Captain
Assistant Quartermaster
Generals & Staff Officers Corps
Confederate States Army

 

CONFEDERATE ARCHIVES & OTHER SOURCES

"Roster of Confederate Soldiers: 1861-1865" WHITE, Joseph Baxter Captain Assistant Quartermaster Generals & Staff "Confederate Staff Officers: 1861-1865"   Capt. Joseph B. White PACS Assistant Quartermaster Humes' Division of Cavalry Wheeler's Cavalry Corps Provisional Army of the Confederate States   The United States National Parks Service Archives "Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System" Capt. J. B. White PACS General and Staff Officers Corps Division and Brigade Staffs Non-com. Staffs and Bands Enlisted Men Staff Departments Confederate States Army The United States National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) National Archives Micro Film #M818 Roll #25

 

The Military Service Records of Captain Joseph White CSA

As you read this, an effort -- a VERY SERIOUS effort -- is underway to identify through Captain White's military service records his Confederate Army service, with emphasis on identifying all of the campaigns he participated in... Should anyone have this information, please do send it to me!!!  The family would love to document his service here for researchers and future generations to know... Also...if anyone has any information -- especially a full description or sketches -- of what Captain Joseph Baxter White's Confederate Captain's Uniform would look like, I would be personally grateful to know... He was an Assistant Quartermaster on the Generals & Staff Corps of the Confederate States Army assigned to Humes' Division of Cavalry, Wheeler's Cavalry Corps... Thanks...

 

The Last Battle For Captain Joseph Baxter White CSA

The United States National Parks Service: "Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System"     The Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama Other Names Passing of Forts Morgan and Gaines Location Mobile County and Baldwin County Campaign Operations in Mobile Bay (1864) Dates 02 - 23 August 1864 Principal Commanders United States Admiral David G. Farragut Major General Gordon Granger Confederate States Admiral Franklin Buchanan Brigadier General Richard L. Page Forces Engaged United States Farragut’s Fleet (14 wooden ships and 4 monitors) U.S. Army Forces near Mobile Confederate States Buchanan’s Flotilla (3 gunboats and an ironclad), Fort Morgan Garrison Fort Gaines Garrison Fort Powell Garrison Estimated Casualties Overall: 1,822 United States: 322 Confederate States: 1,500 Description A combined Union force initiated operations to close Mobile Bay to blockade running. Some Union forces landed on Dauphin Island and laid siege to Fort Gaines. On August 5, Admiral David G. Farragut’s Union Fleet of eighteen (18) ships entered Mobile Bay and received a devastating fire from Forts Gaines and Morgan and other points. After passing the forts, Farragut forced the Confederate Naval Forces, under Admiral Franklin Buchanan, to surrender, which effectively closed Mobile Bay. By August 23, Fort Morgan, the last big holdout, fell, shutting down the port. The city, however, remained uncaptured. Results Union victory CWSAC Reference # AL003 Preservation Priority I.1 (Class A)

 

Epitaph...

Joseph didn't know that only five weeks before, his brother (SGT JOHN POINDEXTER WHITE, CSA -  Barksdale's Grays; one of the few survivors of the Barksdale's Grays that made Pickett's Charge in the center of the Confederate lines at the Battle of Gettysburg) had been Killed In Action during the Confederate "March to the Sea Campaign: Georgia", fighting & leading (after his company's officers were killed in action) a rear-guard action against advancing Union Cavalry forces...  ...John was sent home for burial in the White Family Cemetery as well... Joseph was buried with full military honors, and an 10' odalisque was erected as his headstone in the family cemetery...for a "True Hero of the South"... His brother John's headstone is a simple red marker stone along the fence line of the White Family Cemetery just off the Louisville-Sturgis Road ... ... a common "soldier's" marker of the day...