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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Floyd T. Williams

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 10 siblings on their farm (with 7 slaves - one adult woman, 6 children 12 and under) in Burke County, GA. He enlisted at Waynesboro, GA on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the body in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his leg, and captured at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863, briefly at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC and at Fort Delaware, then sent to City Point, VA on 23 May for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 5 June and on a 40-day furlough from 21 July. Due to disability for field service, he was detailed to the Camp Jackson Hospital in Richmond on 16 March 1864, reporting on 24 March, and he served there as nurse, clerk, and wardmaster to at least February 1865, the last record in his military file.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farmer in Burke County.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His wound on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from the US Census of 1860 & 1870, both as Floyd Williams.

Birth

c. 1844 in GA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 5, p. 138 [AotW citation 31799]

2 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 31800]

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