Nickelsville Spartan Band Roster, Company E
48th Virginia Regiment


Kilgore Fort House, Copper Creek, Scott Co. Va.
Sketch by Andrew Bond, August 1996

Joshua Davidson Frazier

Rank: Cpl.

1860 Census: Farm hand, Scott Co., age 19

Enlistment: Nickelsville, Scott Co., age 21, 7/2/61

Present thru 10/15/61. WIA, knee, Chancellorsville, 5/2/63-5/3/63. Hosp., Richmond 5/6/63 to 6/12/63 when released to duty. WIA Gettysburg, Pa., 7/2/63-7/3/63. Promoted cpl. by 1/11/64. Present 2/64. WIA Wilderness 5/5/64-5/6/64. Hosp., Farmville, 5/10/64 to 5/28/64 when sent to Emory & Henry. Transferred to Co. F 10/31/64 when present. Present 12/31/64. Paroled Appomattox C.H. 4/9/65. Died, heart and kidney trouble, Kingsport, Tenn, by 11/27/1923.


Last Spartan Band Member Standing

According to the Southern Historical Society's Appomattox Roster, Joshua Davidson Frazier was the only member of the original Spartan Band to obtain his parole with the ANV at Appomattox Court House.


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