Ross A. Byrd

In 1860 he was a 27 year old bookkeeper living in R.G. Moss' hotel/tavern at Hayneville in Lowndes County, AL. He enlisted on 3 March 1862 at Paulding, Jasper County, MS as a Private in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry.

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

He was wounded again, at the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and furloughed home to at least November 1864. He was surrendered at Citronelle, AL on 4 May 1865 and paroled at Meridian, MD on 13 May.

By 1870, then a mechanic, and to at least 1880, he lived with his brother Wiley and family on their farm in Jasper County, MS. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a machinist/sewing machine repairman boarding on the Harrington family farm there.

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 and the US Census of 1860-1910.

Brother of Wiley Foster Byrd (1818-1898), who came to Jasper County to farm in 1860.

06/1830 in NC