Francis Christopher B. Haynes

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and siblings on the prosperous family farm in Wilkinson County, MS. Probably going by Christopher, he enlisted on 21 April 1861 in Woodville, MS and mustered on 27 May 1861 as a Private in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry in Corinth, MS. He was captured at Winchester, VA in June 1862, was a prisoner in Baltimore, and was sent to the James River, VA for exchange on 2 August 1862.

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

He was home on furlough to about March 1863, then assigned as orderly to the Colonel of the regiment. He returned to his Company about July 1863 but broke a finger of his right hand on 17 September 1863 and was in a Richmond Hospital to 28 October. He was again detailed away, as a member of the Provost Guard, Anderson's Division, about January 1864. He was furloughed in August 1864 and listed was absent without leave as of 28 September 1864 and to at least February 1865, the last record in his military file.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer living with his father and sister Levilla at Woodville or Mount Pleasant, Wilkinson County, MS. He was a resident of the Beauvoir Soldiers' Home, Biloxi, MS, probably some time after 1904, and died there, date not given.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound is also on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1880.

His "B" may stand for Bythell, his paternal grandfather's name, or Baldwin, his grandmother's family.

c. 1844

Date not known; Biloxi, MS; burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, MS