He was 44-1/2 years old when he enlisted (2, 4 [44]). He was born in Boston, Massachusetts (2, 4).
He was a farmer (2, 4). He was living in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, when he was enrolled (4).
He was 5 feet 7-1/2 inches tall, and had a dark complexion, grey eyes, and dark hair (2, 4).
He enlisted and was mustered into service as a private for one year, as a recruit, on 18 January 1865, at Norristown, Pennsylvania (1, 2, 4). He was enlisted and mustered into service by Captain Yerkes (2). He served as a private in company E (1).
He received a slight wound in the head on 6 February 1865, while charging enemy works at Hatcher's Run, Virginia (1, 2, 5 [neck]).
He was discharged, at the Fifth Corps Hospital near Alexandria Virginia, on 19 May 1865 either on surgeon's certificate of disability (1, 4) or on orders from the War Department (3).
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman. History of Pennsylvania volunteers, 1861-5. Harrisburg: B. Singerly, state printer, 1869-71. 5 volumes. 'Ninety-first regiment', volume 3, pages 186-233. (In the roster)
2 descriptive roll, company E, entry 148 (Joseph Lathrop)
3 company E, register of men discharged, number 42 (Joseph Lathrop)
4 Civil War Veterans' Card File, available at the Pennsylvania State Archives, searched 17 May 2004 (Joseph Lathrop)
5 'Gen. Grant's recent movement', Philadelphia Inquirer 10 February 1865 p.2 (J Lathrop)
[I did not find an entry from him in the index on <www.ancestry.com> to the pension index by name]