Career
He served as a Colonel in the 7th West Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. He also served as the commander in the 4th West Virginia Cavalry.
He was in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
He was wounded three times. 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.
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.
