Richardson and his two younger brothers, Edward Lunsford Richardson and Milton Cobb Richardson, attended R-MC together in 1859-1860. He enlisted as a lieutenant on April 30, 1862 in Co. C of the 53rd NC Infantry. He was promoted to captain on April 17, 1863. He was wounded in the left side on May 2, 1865 at Petersburg and evacuated to the hospital at Danville, VA by May 5, 1865.
He recovered from his wound and returned home to Johnston County, NC, where he resumed his life as a fairly wealthy farmer, living with his father, Pharaoh Richardson until the father's death in 1870. The family home had been used by Confederate General Joe Johnston as his headquarters in late March and early April 1865. Joseph never married, and by 1910 was residing in the Confederate Soldier's Home in Raleigh, NC. Richardson died on January 6, 1911 and is buried in Raleigh's Oakwood Cemetery.
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