Joel Allen Dewey was a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War. He was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers in November 1865, after the conclusion of the war, but he was mustered out on January 31, 1866, before the U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment on February 23, 1866. After the war, he was a lawyer and district attorney general in Tennessee.
- Occupation
- military officer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 20, 1840
- Died
- June 17, 1873
