Jacob Alexander Taylor

In 1860 he was a 26 year old teacher living on the M.F. Byrds farm in Jasper County, MS. He enlisted on 27 April 1861 at Paulding, Jasper County, and mustered as a Private in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 31 May 1861 in Corinth. He was appointed 3rd Sergeant at the Army reorganization of 26 April 1862.

He was wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 30 September but sent back to his Company on 10 November 1862. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his head on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864 and in Richmond hospitals to at least 17 December 1864, when he was detailed to the Stuart Hospital there. He was transferred to work in a hospital in Enterprise, MS on 12 January 1865, but was back at Stuart Hospital on 15 February. He was cleared to return to duty on 28 February 1865 and on another detail on 1 April 1865. He signed a parole at Montgomery, AL on 17 June 1865.

In 1870 he was a school teacher in Abbeville, Vermillion Parish, LA.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has him as Alexander Jacob Taylor, and the US Census of 1860 and 1870. His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Waggoner (1853-1882) and they had 5 children between 1871 and 1879, all in Iberia Parish, LA.

07/12/1834; Monroe County, AL

07/12/1879; New Iberia, LA