Joseph was the son of Stephen Trigg Garner and Nancy Snoddy Garner of Howard County, Missouri. He was born and grew up on the family farm just west of Armstrong. Three of his siblings are;
Susan E. Garner Pemberton (3/14/1848-1/07/1907)
John Samuel Garner (1/30/1854-6/30/1942)
Henry F. Garner (8/26/1857-3/05/1882)
Joseph joined Co. "C", 2nd Regiment, 3rd Division, Missouri State Guard in 1861 as did his uncle Jesse Garner. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Arkansas, on March 7, 1862. He was evacuated to a field hospital by wagon where he died the next day from a gun shot wound through the side. He was originally buried at a Mill site several miles from the battlefield. A sort of diary exists that he carried on his person that gives some interesting information about all of this and even which friends buried him. More later as time permits!
It is not known if his body was actually interred in this Confederate Cemetery. Many confederate troops all over northwestern Arkansas where reinterred here after the war. Their bodies where removed from various small cemeteries to one central location. It is thought that his first burial site is now under water.
Susan E. Garner Pemberton (3/14/1848-1/07/1907)
John Samuel Garner (1/30/1854-6/30/1942)
Henry F. Garner (8/26/1857-3/05/1882)
Joseph joined Co. "C", 2nd Regiment, 3rd Division, Missouri State Guard in 1861 as did his uncle Jesse Garner. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Arkansas, on March 7, 1862. He was evacuated to a field hospital by wagon where he died the next day from a gun shot wound through the side. He was originally buried at a Mill site several miles from the battlefield. A sort of diary exists that he carried on his person that gives some interesting information about all of this and even which friends buried him. More later as time permits!
It is not known if his body was actually interred in this Confederate Cemetery. Many confederate troops all over northwestern Arkansas where reinterred here after the war. Their bodies where removed from various small cemeteries to one central location. It is thought that his first burial site is now under water.
Joseph was the son of Stephen Trigg Garner and Nancy Snoddy Garner of Howard County, Missouri. He was born and grew up on the family farm just west of Armstrong. Three of his siblings are;
Susan E. Garner Pemberton (3/14/1848-1/07/1907)
John Samuel Garner (1/30/1854-6/30/1942)
Henry F. Garner (8/26/1857-3/05/1882)
Joseph joined Co. "C", 2nd Regiment, 3rd Division, Missouri State Guard in 1861 as did his uncle Jesse Garner. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Arkansas, on March 7, 1862. He was evacuated to a field hospital by wagon where he died the next day from a gun shot wound through the side. He was originally buried at a Mill site several miles from the battlefield. A sort of diary exists that he carried on his person that gives some interesting information about all of this and even which friends buried him. More later as time permits!
It is not known if his body was actually interred in this Confederate Cemetery. Many confederate troops all over northwestern Arkansas where reinterred here after the war. Their bodies where removed from various small cemeteries to one central location. It is thought that his first burial site is now under water.
Susan E. Garner Pemberton (3/14/1848-1/07/1907)
John Samuel Garner (1/30/1854-6/30/1942)
Henry F. Garner (8/26/1857-3/05/1882)
Joseph joined Co. "C", 2nd Regiment, 3rd Division, Missouri State Guard in 1861 as did his uncle Jesse Garner. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Arkansas, on March 7, 1862. He was evacuated to a field hospital by wagon where he died the next day from a gun shot wound through the side. He was originally buried at a Mill site several miles from the battlefield. A sort of diary exists that he carried on his person that gives some interesting information about all of this and even which friends buried him. More later as time permits!
It is not known if his body was actually interred in this Confederate Cemetery. Many confederate troops all over northwestern Arkansas where reinterred here after the war. Their bodies where removed from various small cemeteries to one central location. It is thought that his first burial site is now under water.
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