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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel M. Taylor

(1835 - 1911)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company B, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was on wounded furlough from 8 October 1862 to 6 January 1863. He was appointed 2nd Corporal on 2 May 1864 and wounded and captured at Winchester, VA on 19 September 1864. He was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until transferred to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange on 15 March 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from Henderson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave; Mrs Thomas Spencer of the Agnes Lee Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy in Decatur, GA obtained a government marker for his grave in May 1960.

Birth

1835

Death

1911; burial in Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Hogansville, GA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 28596]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28597]

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