Joseph Borst
Name: Joseph Borst
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st PA Light Arty., 43rd Regt.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 05/29/1861
Company: Battery A
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Chambersburg, PA; Born in Clearfield Co., PA; Sick in camp, 08-31-1861. Absent on 30-day furlough, 03-00-1864. Absent on detail duty in Reserve Ambulance Corps, 07-00-1864; Discharge: Harrisburg, Pa. 7/25/1865; Reenlisted as veteran volunteer, Portsmouth, Va., 02-26-1864
Source(s):
Soldiers’ Records for Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on the website “Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/dossiers).
