Joel Henry Scates

1845 - 1865  (20 years)

• Name	Joel Henry Scates  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	15 Feb 1845	, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA   [6, 7, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1850	, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA   [2]
  Residence	1860	, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA   [3]
  Military	Abt 1862	, , Virginia, USA   [9, 10, 11]
  	Enlisted as Private in Company I, 53rd Virginia Infantry Regiment - date unknown.
  Military	1 Apr 1865	Five Forks, Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA
  	POW
  Military	6 Apr 1865	Point Lookout, Saint Marys, Maryland, USA
  	POW
  Death	24 Apr 1865	Point Lookout, Saint Marys, Maryland, USA   [12, 13, 14]
  Burial	24 Apr 1865	Point Lookout, Saint Marys, Maryland, USA   [10]
  	Buried at Point Lookout, Maryland, grave 1549 in Prisoner of War Graveyard.
  Person ID	I3756	Master
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2012

  
  

  Father	Grief David Scates,   b. 25 May 1815, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 17 Feb 1856, Banister, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 40 years)
  Mother	Susan Sarah Echols,   b. 1820, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 20 Jun 1865, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 45 years)
  Marriage	21 Feb 1842	, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA   [15]
  Family ID	F1210	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 15 Feb 1845 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Residence - 1850 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Residence - 1860 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Military - Enlisted as Private in Company I, 53rd Virginia Infantry Regiment - date unknown. - Abt 1862 - , , Virginia, USA Military - POW - 1 Apr 1865 - Five Forks, Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA Military - POW - 6 Apr 1865 - Point Lookout, Saint Marys, Maryland, USA Death - 24 Apr 1865 - Point Lookout, Saint Marys, Maryland, USA Burial - 24 Apr 1865 - Point Lookout, Saint Marys, Maryland, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Civil War » Slide Show		53rd Virginia Infantry Captured in Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863.
  		Give Them Cold Steel Boys! By Don Troiani Pickett's Charge was a bloodbath. While the Union suffered 1,500 casualties, the Confederates had over 6,000. Over 50% of the men sent across the fields were killed or wounded. Pickett's division alone, out of about 5,500 men, lost 224 killed, 1,140 wounded, and 1,499 missing/captured. Pickett's three brigade commanders and all thirteen of his regimental commanders were casualties. Kemper was wounded, Garnett killed, and Armistead mortally wounded. Abram Fackler was at Gettysburg with Company I of the 53rd Virginia Infantry Regiment, "The Chatham Greys" of General Lou Armistead's Brigade of Pickett's Division. The sergeant of Company I was Sgt. Robert Tyler Jones, the grandson of former president James Tyler. Seventy-five yards from the stone wall at Gettysburg General Louis Armistead screamed over the sounds of battle to Colonel Rawley W. Martin and said "colonel, we can not stay here" Colonel "Billy Martin screamed back "then sir, we must go foreward. The Don Troiani painting of the battle of Gettysburg is an accurate depiction showing General Armistead leading his men to the stone wall with his hat on the tip of his sword, look close and behind him you will see the fluttering battle flags of the 53rd and 57th Virginia. For a few brief seconds in history, The "Chatham Greys" held the stone wall... and Sgt Robert Tyler Jones fell, Colonel Whitehead fell, Colonel R.W. "Billy" Martin fell with a shattered leg, General Louis Armistead was mortally wounded by the cannon.... and our boys grudgingly retreated.
  		Point Lookout, Maryland - 1863 Prison camp for Confederate prisoners. Abram Fackler and his nephew Joel Scates were captured at Five Forks. Both were prisoners at Point Lookout. Joel died of measles 24 April 1865, while Abram took the oath and was released a couple months later.

  
  

  Albums		Joel H Scates Confederate Service Record (5) Joel enlisted in Company I, 53rd Virginia Infantry sometime in 1862, at age 17. He served until a few weeks before the end of the war, being captured at Five Forks. In this battle the Confederates ran out of ammunition, ending up in hand to hand combat, using their rifles as clubs. Joel was captured and sent to Point Lookout, where he died of measles 3 weeks later, 15 days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, 12 days after the disbandment and parole of the Army of Northern Virginia.
  		53rd Virginia Infantry Regiment (3) The 53rd Infantry Regiment was organized in December, 1861, by consolidating Tomlin's and Montague's Battalions, and Waddill's Infantry Company. Many of the men were recruited in Halifax, New Kent, Charles City, and Pittsylvania counties. It was assigned to General Armistead's, Barton's, and Steuart's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The unit was active from Seven Pines to Gettysburg, served in North Carolina, then fought at Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor. Later it participated in the long Petersburg siege north of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. This regiment contained 468 effectives in June, 1862, lost 31 of the 128 engaged at Malvern Hill, and reported 11 casualties during the Maryland Campaign. Of the 435 who saw action at Gettysburg more than thirty percent were disabled, and there were 3 killed, 33 wounded, and 3 missing at Drewry's Bluff. Many were captured at Sayler's Creek, and 6 officers and 74 men surrendered on April 9, 1865. The field officers were Colonels William R. Aylett, John Grammar, Jr., Carter L. Stevenson, and Harrison B. Tomlin; Lieutenant Colonels Rawley W. Martin, Edgar B. Montague, John C. Timberlake, and George M. Waddill; and Majors Henry Edmundson and William Leigh.

  
  

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