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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Hugh J. Hoyt

(1843 - 1914)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Louisiana Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An 18 year old blacksmith in Livingston Parish, he enlisted as Private, Company K, 7th Louisiana Infantry at Camp Moore, LA on 7 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Harpers Ferry on 15 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was listed as exchanged in September 1862 and afterward as a deserter, with no further military record.

After the War

He was living in Pittsburgh, PA by the 1890s.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records, online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1843 in NY

Death

08/06/1914; Pittsburgh, PA; burial in Beaver Cemetery and Mausoleum, Beaver, PA