5th Sergeant Joshua D. Phillips
A Company

Born on 14 June 1837. 

He enlisted 18 May 1861. 

Won a marksman contest for one of the few Whitworth rifles sometime after the Battle of Perryville, 8 October 1862, while in Middle Tennessee. 

Promoted to 5th Sergeant on 1 January 1863. 

In August 1863 he is on duty at Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk's Headquarters. 

Served to the end being paroled at Greensboro, NC, 1 May 1865. 

He was to marry Mary Phillips.