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Joseph Jones Reynolds, the sixth son and seventh child of Edward and Sarah (Longley) Reynolds, was born January 4, 1822 in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. His father, a hatter, moved with his family to Lafayette, Indiana, in 1837.
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Joseph Jones Reynolds, the sixth son and seventh child of Edward and Sarah (Longley) Reynolds, was born January 4, 1822 in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. His father, a hatter, moved with his family to Lafayette, Indiana, in 1837.
Joseph attended the common schools of Flemingsburg, and in 1838 matriculated at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana. While there, he received an appointment as a cadet to the United States Military Academy, entering in 1839, and graduating in 1843, standing tenth in a class of thirty-nine. Among his classmates was U. S. Grant, with whom he formed a lasting friendship.
Upon graduation he was appointed brevet second lieutenant, 4th Artillery, with station at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, and later at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In 1845 he was assigned to General Taylor's force engaged in the military occupation of Texas. He was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant on May 11, 1846, and in the fall of the same year was assigned to the teaching staff of the United States Military Academy where he remained until 1855.
He next served, as first lieutenant, 3rd Artillery, on frontier duty at Fort Washita, Indian Territory, until 1857, when he resigned from the army to become professor of mechanics and engineering in Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri.
In 1860 he returned to Lafayette to enter a grocery business with one of his brothers. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he was appointed colonel of the 10th Indiana Volunteers and applied his military knowledge very ably in the organizing and training of the new troops.
He was appointed brigadier-general of Indiana Volunteers and, on May 17, 1861, was made brigadier-general of United States Volunteers and assigned to command a brigade and later the Cheat Mountain district in the Department of Western Virginia under General Rosecrans. At Cheat Mountain in September he successfully repelled a Confederate advance and thereby secured that portion of western Virginia for the Union. Owing to the death of the brother with whom he was in partnership, he was obliged to resign in January 1862, and look after the business. While thus employed, he unofficially assisted the state authorities in organizing new regiments.
In August 1862, he again entered the service as colonel of the 75th Indiana Volunteers and in September was recommissioned brigadier-general of United States Volunteers. He was promoted to the rank of major-general in November and assigned to command a division in the Army of the Cumberland.
He was in the engagement at Hoover's Gap, Tennessee, on June 24, 1863, and in the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, on September 19 and 20, 1863.
In October 1863, he became chief of staff of the army of the Cumberland and took a prominent part in the battle of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the following month. In January 1864, he was transferred to the command of the defenses of New Orleans and in the following July he assumed command of the XIX Army Corps and organized the forces for the capture of the coast defenses and city of Mobile, Alabama.
In the fall of 1864 he commanded a district on the Mississippi from Memphis to its mouth. For the next two years he commanded the Department of Arkansas. He was mustered out of the volunteer service in September 1866 and reverted to the rank of colonel of the 26th Infantry, to which grade in the regular army he had in the meantime been appointed.
During the troublesome days of reconstruction he commanded with admirable tact and judgment, successively, the subdistrict of the Rio Grande, the district of Texas, the fifth military district comprising Texas and Louisiana, and the Department of Texas.
In 1867 he was brevetted brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious service at Chickamauga, and major-general for similar services at the battle of Missionary Ridge. He was transferred to the cavalry and from 1872 to 1876 commanded in turn Fort McPherson, Nebraska, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, and the district of South Platte. He was retired from active service on June 25, 1877, for disability contracted in line of duty, and thus ended his long and varied career of public service which both in peace and war was characterized by ability and devotion to duty. He was elected United States senator by the Texas legislature in 1871, but his election was contested in the Senate and the seat awarded to Morgan C. Hamilton.
After his retirement, Reynolds settled in Washington, D. C. , where he died.
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He married Mary Elizabeth Bainbridge on December 3, 1846. They had two daughters and two sons.