City: Memphis
BUCHANAN, Joseph W., lawyer; born Chatham Co., N.C.; Scotch descent; son of Thomas J. and Sophie (Martin) BUCHANAN; father, planter; paternal grandparents, Joseph and Charity (Williams) BUCHANAN, maternal grandparents Dr. William and Flora Isabella (McQueen) MARTIN; his maternal grandmother was a direct descendant of Robert BRUCE; graduated University of Mississippi B.A., 1860; reared on farm; enlisted in the Chickasaw Guards Jan. 10, 1861, and accompanied them to Florida, where they remained one month, and in April the Guards were sent to Virginia and assigned to the Eleventh Mississippi infantry, being Co. “H” of that organization; after the battle of Manassas he was elected captain of Co. “H,” Twenty-fouth Mississippi regiment, afterwards Walthalls Brigade; served in army of Tennessee until wounded at Jonesboro, Ga., in 1864, and was in all of the battles of the Army of Tennessee from Perryville, Ky., and to Jonesboro, Ga.; he was captured at latter and a few days later recaptured by Confederates and sent to hospital at Cuthbert, Ga., where he remained until November, 1865, and after he returned to his Mississippi home he was an invalid from the injuries received during the war, four years; in 1868 he was admitted to practice law, and located at Houston, Miss., and two years later he removed to Okolona, Miss., where he continued to practice until 1888, when he located at Memphis, where he has since remained; he was a member of the Mississippi legislature from Chickasaw county, in 1880-82, appointed judge of the Circuit Court of First District, 1882, and resigned before the termination of his term; became division attorney for K.C., M. & B.R.R. in 1887 and is present attorney for Frisco R.R., successor to K.C., M. & B.R.R.; married Thelia SPRAGINS, Dec. 2, 1868; member Masons, Knights Templar Sigma Chi, and B.M.C.
