Acton Memorial Library Civil War Archives | Civil War Records of Alonzo Joy

Civil War Records of Alonzo Joy

Service

Co.	Regiment / Ship	From	To	Residence / Credit	Occupation	Notes
I (Lawrence Light Infantry)	6th MVI (3 months)	Private; enl. April 15, 1861; must. April 22, 1861	must. out Aug. 2, 1861	Lawrence		age 20; wounded April 19, 1861, at Baltimore, Md.
G	30th MVI	Sergt.; enl. and must. Oct. 22, 1861; re-enlist. Jan. 1, 1864	must. out July 5, 1866, as 1st Sergt.	South Berwick, Me.	operative	age 21
MASSCW, 1:391, 3:371

Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): x
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): x

Pension

Co.	Regiment	Date Filed	Type	App. No.	Cert. No.	State	Beneficiary/Remarks
I G	6th MVI 30th MVI	Feb. 9, 1872	Invalid	172 235	119 716

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives): 6 pages (PDF*)

Grand Army of the Republic

Recorded as member no. 136 in the membership roster of Isaac Davis Post No. 138 G.A.R., Acton, Massachusetts. Served as Post Commander, 1912 (Acton Memorial Library archives, 92.2.1).

Fifteen members of Isaac Davis Post No. 138 G.A.R. in front of the Telephone Office Building, West Acton, on May 30, 1924 (photograph, Acton Memorial Library archives 24.1.1)

Death

Date	August 19, 1926
Place	Acton, Mass.
Age	85
Cause
Obituary	Concord Enterprise, August 25, 1926
Funeral
Burial	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Plot: 116 Division Ave. (Find A Grave Memorial# 181026374, http://www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2017-07-07).
Survived by	three daughters, a son and a brother

Additional Information

Born 1841 in South Berwick, Maine, Alonzo Joy enlisted at Lawrence as a private in the 6th Massachusetts Infantry. He was wounded in the Baltimore riot of April 19, 1861, when two fingers on his left hand were shot off. He then enlisted in October 1861 as a sergeant in the 30th Massachusetts Infantry and served until July 1866. After the war he lived in Lawrence and Haverhill until settling in Concord Junction (West Concord) in 1889. By 1910, he was living in Acton. He died August 19, 1926. (Text from "Not Afraid to Go", exhibit at the Acton Memorial Library).