HOWELL, Joshua Blackwood

Affiliation:  Union

Born: September 11 1806, nr Woodbury NJ

Died: September 14 1864, near Petersburg VA

Pre-War Profession: Lawyer, Brigadier general in state militia

War Service: November 1861 Col. of 85th Pennsylvania, Washington defenses, Peninsula campaign, New Berne, Goldsboro expedition, commanded a brigade in the siege of Charleston, Bermuda Hundred, September 1864 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers.

Post War:  Dies following a fall from his horse in 1864