Joseph Snider

Joseph Snider (February 14, 1827 – January 9, 1909)

4th West Virginia Cavalry. He was in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville

. He was wounded three times. He later was a member of the West Virginia legislature in 1872/73 and 1875. Joseph married twice: first to Margaretta Miller (1824/1878) by whom he had four children: Olive, Edith, Elisha and Frank, and second to Laura Miller. He had one child by his second marriage that died as an infant.

In May 1999, the West Virginia State Archives received a donation of nine Civil War-era letters written by Colonel Joseph Snider, commander of the 7th West Virginia Infantry and 4th West Virginia Cavalry, to his daughter Mary Edith. The letters were a gift from Ken and Connie Easley, a great-granddaughter, of Tallahassee, Florida, and had been kept for years by Snider's great-granddaughter, Amelia Lockard Moul.

References

^ "Biography of Colonel Joseph Snider". West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Retrieved April 10, 2011.

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[West_Virginia_Division_of_Culture_and_History-1] "Biography of Colonel Joseph Snider". West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Retrieved April 10, 2011.