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Joseph Blackwood enlisted at Camp Holmes, near Raleigh, on December 6, 1863, in Company H.  He was wounded in the left thigh and captured at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on May 12, 1864.  First hospitalized in Washington D. C., he was transferred on October 24, 1864, to Elmira, New York.  He died at Elmira on March 3, 1865, of an "abscess."  Federal medical records give his age as 46.  Private Blackwood is buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York.
 

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