Joseph Long is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Joseph Long
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4404460
Unit:
Merchant Ship Columbia
Date of Death:
1815-05-29
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Joseph Long was a 25-year-old seaman from Massachusetts who served aboard the merchant ship Columbia. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Long died on May 29, 1815, with phthisis recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.