Joel Allen Dewey
Born: September 20, 1840
Birthplace: Georgia, Vermont
Father: Horace Moseley Dewey 1811 – 1892
(Buried: Austinburg Center Cemetery, Austinburg, Ohio)
Mother: Harriet Peck Unknown – 1848
(Buried: Georgia Plain Cemetery, Georgia Plains, Vermont)
Wife: Victoria Josephine Branner 1850 – 1930
(Buried: Charlton Cemetery, Charlton, Iowa)
Children:
Walter Hamilton Dewey 1872 – 1952
(Buried: Charlton Cemetery, Charlton, Iowa)
Education:
1858 – 1861: Attended Oberlin College
1867: Graduated from Albany, New York Law School
Civil War Career:
1861: 2nd Lt. in 58th Ohio Infantry Regiment
1861 – 1863: Captain in 43rd Ohio Infantry Regiment
1862: Participated in the Battle of Island No. 10, Tennessee
1862: Participated in the Battle of Iuka, Mississippi
1862: Participated in the Siege of Corinth, Mississippi
1862 – 1863: Garrison Duty in Tennessee
1864 – 1865: Colonel of 111th United States Colored Infantry Regiment
1864: Participated with the Army, and his Regiment, in Alabama
1864: Captured by Nathan B. Forrest in Athens, Georgia
1865 – 1866: Brigadier General of Union Army Volunteers, Infantry
1866: Mustered out of the Volunteer Army on January 31st
Occupation after War:
Attorney in Dandridge, Tennessee
1869 – 1873: Tennessee Attorney General, for Second Tennessee District
Died: June 17, 1873
Place of Death: Knoxville, Tennessee
Age at time of Death: 32 years old
Cause of Death: Assumably of the heart
Burial Place: Hopewell Presbyterian Church, Dandridge, Tennessee
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