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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William F. Floyd

(c. 1841 - 1863)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 21 (?) year old farmer, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County on 11 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in hospitals in Richmond until 14 October, then furloughed for 30 days. He was back on duty by December 1862 and was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 20 May 1863, but was killed at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. The 1850 US Census has him as a 9 year old farm boy on his father Robert Jackson Floyd's (1820-1906) place in southern DeSoto County, MS. His death at Gettysburg from Polley.3

Birth

c. 1841; DeSoto County, MS

Death

07/1863; Gettysburg, PA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 157-158 [AotW citation 1793]

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 26661]

3 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 324 [AotW citation 26662]

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