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- G-Bachmann-wwwrootsweb.ancestry:
GEBURT:
1. #120. "Headstone.".
TOD:
2. #629. "Headstone, Oakwood Cem., Montgomery, AL.".
Died in a hospital
A former Mexican War officer, in 1851 Joseph Morehead led forays to Baja California and Mazatlan in connection with gold fields there and probably intent on territorial expansion as well. Describing Joseph Morehead and other filibusters, Å“Based in San Francisco, the filibusters launched attacks on Baja ..These rogues were viewed as heroes in California as they marched south in blatant illegal acts against Mexico.Â
œIn 1852 the city of Sonora, in an attempt to attract more of the westbound emigrants into their area, sent Joseph Moorehead [sic] to the Humboldt Sink as an emissary.  He convinced wagon trains to come over the Emigrant Pass route with ˜tales™ of it being a better and faster route than those in use to the north.  One of those wagon trains he accompanied was the Clark-Skidmore Party of 1852.
In 1859, he was a lawyer in Cloverport, Brechenridge Co., Kentucky, along with James T. Morehead. Joseph was a Colonel in Morehead's Regiment (Partisan Rangers), Kentucky. Confederate. In 1860 he and his wife were living in Jackson, Hinds, MS, with their 2-year-old daughter, Maggie. His Aunt Mary (œMariah Morehead Work) was living in Hinds, MS, at the same time (with her husband, George Work, also an attorney). Joseph died in a hospital in Pike County, AL, and was probably recruiting there at the time.,,
Col. JC Morehead of Moreheadâ„¢s Regiment was captured on June 17, 1862, in Mississippi (Âsuspected spyÂ). He was sent for exchange on May 20, 1863, at Fort Monroe.
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