Collingwood, Joseph W., 1822-1862.

Joseph W. Collingwood was a Union officer. Before the Civil War, he owned a fish market and a sailboat, and was member of the Plymouth Standish Guards and Massachusetts Militia. In 1848, he married Rebecca W. Richardson, a teacher at the Boston Female Asylum. In August 1861, Collingwood was commissioned Captain of the Company H of the 18th Massachusetts Infantry. Until October 1861, his regiment was attached to Fort Corcoran, defenses of Washington, and then to the Army of the Potomac. The regiment remained in camp at Hall's Hill, Va., until March 1862, and then took part in the Peninsular Campaign, 2nd Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg Campaign. In Oct. 1862, Collingwood was detailed by Gen. Porter as Provost Marshall to Keedysville, Md. He then joined the regiment in its movement to Falmouth and Fredericksburg, Va. Collingwood was mortally wounded in the battle of Fredericksburg, and died of wounds on Dec. 24, 1862. He was buried in Plymouth, Mass. His brothers John B. and Thomas, 1st Lieutenant and private of the 29th Massachusetts Infantry regiment, died in 1863.

Collingwood's daughter, Eleanor accompanied Benjamin Apthrop Gould (1824-1896) and his family during his work at the national observatory in Cordoba, Argentina in 1870-1874. In 1878 she was a teacher at Hampton Institute founded by Samuel Chapman Armstrong. Collingwood's son Charles Barnard Collingwood (1860-1937) married Harriet Thomas; he was a circuit judge in East Lansing, Michigan. His other son Herbert Winslow became a prominent agricultural journalist and editor of the Rural New Yorker.

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