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T. Taylor
(1843 - 1907)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Louisiana Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an 18 year old year old on his father's large sugar plantation (92 slaves) at Napoleonville in Assumption Parish. He enlisted as First Corporal of Company K, 8th Louisiana Infantry on 19 June 1861 at Camp Moore, LA. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant by October 1861, was 4th Sergeant by June 1862, and 3rd Sergeant by August.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded by gunshot to the knee in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured on the field.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a field hospital near Sharpsburg and sent to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 28 September. From there he was transferred to a hospital in Saratoga, NY, date not given. He was "dropped from the list of Sergeants" on 1 April 1863 and exchanged at City Point, VA on 23 May. He was absent on furlough in Watumpka, AL to August 1863, then detailed to work at the CS Treasury Department in Montgomery, AL, still only able to walk with crutches. He was paroled in Montgomery on 15 May 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Fauquier County, VA.
References & notes
His service from Booth1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph from Bill Frassanito.4
He married Annie Elizabeth Lawrason (1844-1907) in August 1866 and they hd 3 children.
His father was Miles Taylor (1805-1873) who was US Congressman from Louisiana from 1855-1861. Coincidentally, Miles was both born and died in Saratoga Springs, NY.
More on the Web
There's a lovely full standing half-plate ambrotype of him in the collection [catalog] of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Richmond.
Birth
09/22/1843; Assumption Parish, LA
Death
10/11/1907; Richmond, VA; burial in Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery, Casanova, VA
1 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 3, Book 2, pg. 783 [AotW citation 19977]
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 31868]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #653 [AotW citation 19978]
4 Frassanito, William A., Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest Day, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978, pg. 117 [AotW citation 19979]