Major Joseph Caldwell McJunkin (1755 – 1846) was an American Revolutionary War patriot serving in the battle of Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
Born 22 June 1755 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania & died 31 May 1846 in Union County, South Carolina, he married Anne Jane Thomas 9 March 1779 in Union District, South Carolina.
[1] In 1776, McJunkin volunteered in Col. John Thompson's Fair Forest Militia Regiment, where he engaged in the Cherokee campaign.
[2] He served a three month guard tour in Charleston, South Carolina, from November 1779 to February 1780.
[4] He said of Captain Christian Huck: to punish the Presbyterian inhabitants of that place, which he did with a barbarous hand, by killing men, burning churches, & driving off the ministers of the gospel to seek shelter amongst strangers.