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Joel Parsons (1863)

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Entering the service at Mason City (Mason County), this private with the 4th West Virginia Infantry stormed a Confederate stronghold at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on 22 May 1863.

He was born in Jackson County in 1840, moved to Mason County and was a farmer after the war. He died in Columbus, Ohio, in 1919.

Joel Parsons (1863)