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<\/a>Brown, Highland, and Ross counties for a three year commitment.\u00a0 There are various online sites that give the history of this Regiment and it saw heavy fighting from June 1863 to the end of the war.\u00a0 The battles Joseph Justice fought in included Chickamauga, Brown\u2019s Ferry, Chattanooga, and Mission or Missionary Ridge.\u00a0 Missionary Ridge was a particularly deadly fight as the 89th pushed uphill against Confederate rifle pit positions that fired down on them from close range.\u00a0 I am not a military historian or very knowledgeable about battles but I was told early on in my family research that Joseph died on Missionary Ridge.<\/p>\nI have obtained a copy of the widow\u2019s claim and pension awarded to Joseph\u2019s wife which provides rich information (86 pages worth!).\u00a0 It is interesting that on the first page of the file, a summary of Joseph\u2019s service says he was wounded in the Battle of Mission Ridge October 25 1863 and later died of the wounds received (in the knee joint).\u00a0 So he didn\u2019t die on Missionary Ridge but in Chattanooga in hospital.\u00a0 The Battle of Mission Ridge took place November 25 not October.\u00a0 This report may be an error by the Examining Clerk who created the summary, or based on another page it may have be When I was a little girl in Indiana back in the Dark Ages, May 30 was still sometimes called Decoration\u00a0 Day as well as Memorial Day.\u00a0 As a schoolgirl, it marked the beginning of our summer vacation, and for my …<\/p>\n<\/a>en an error on the muster roll of the Company.\u00a0 A summary of Joseph\u2019s medical record found twice treated for diarrhea, and then for the gunshot wound of which he died.\u00a0 This would suggest he had been pretty healthy since more men died in the Civil War of disease than of wounds.\u00a0 Given all this, I clearly need to get Joseph\u2019s medical card and the muster rolls to see for myself what those records say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"