Private Joseph Dicey enlisted the day after his 21st birthday, on 11 August 1862, in Company F, 17th Michigan Infantry. He was mortally wounded in his left thigh and right leg in action at Fox’s Gap on South Mountain about a month later and died at the Casparis Hotel Hospital in Washington, DC just over a month after that, on 24 October 1862.
His photograph was contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Linda Heckerthorn.
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