Brigadier General Joseph P. Plummer died at Corinth, Mississippi, morning, August 11, from congestion the brain. General Plummer was a native of Barre, Massachusetts, and was born in 1820. In 1837 he entered West Point Academy, and was a member of the same class with Nathaniel Lyon, Schuyler Hamilton, James Totten, Don Carlos Buell, and others who have become distinguished in the war. He entered the army and held a captain’s commission in Missouri for many years. He received the commission of brigadier general last winter, and at the time of his decease held a command under General Rosecrans.—He had not been in robust health for some time, but had not intermitted his duties in consequence. On the evening of his death he rode from his headquarters to those of his superior general, and finding him absent had taken await his arrival. Here a sudden vertigo attacked him, and he almost immediately expired.
Delaware State Journal and Statesman, Wilmington, DE