Joseph Whittlesey

Birth Date

c1817

Death Date

1886-08-07

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Cincinnati, Ohio, policeman and soldier. Ohio native. Married to Elizabeth Underwood Whittlesey in Clark County, Ohio, on January 2, 1838. Father of Lydia Ann Whittlesey, Mary E. Whittlesey, Ruth Whittlesey, and Augustus E. Whittlesey. Served in the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from June 22, 1847, to July 22, 1848. Cooper in Warren County, Ohio, in 1850. Policeman in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1860. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain from May 9, 1861, to May 1, 1862. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a sergeant from October 30, 1863, to July 22, 1865. Charged with the murder of a civilian in Louisville in November 1863. Court martialed and imprisoned in Camp Nelson, Jessamine County, Kentucky, from October 1864 to June 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Warren County, Deerfield, p. 48B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 5, p. 401.
Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Clark County Marriages, Film 000466399.
Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, vol. 12, 1861-1866 (Norwalk, OH: The Laning Company, 1895), 303, 467.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0113.
"Whittlesey, Joseph (Death, 1886-08-07)," University of Cincinnati Libraries, 1884-1887 Cincinnati Birth and Death Records, accessed June 5, 2023, http://hdl.handle.net/2374.UC/324545.
"Arrest of a Captain and Two Sergeants, Charged with Killing a Civilian" The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), November 14, 1863, p. 3.
The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), December 1, 1863, p. 3.
"City News," The Evening Post (Cincinnati, OH), August 9, 1886, p. 3.
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