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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joshua C. Taylor

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 11th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, he enrolled in Company A - the University Greys - 11th Mississippi Infantry at Oxford on 26 April 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured at Falling Waters, MD on 14 July 1863 and was exchanged on 6 March 1863 at City, Point, VA. He was captured again, at Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865 and released at Point Lookout, MD on taking the oath of allegiance on 20 June 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Confederate Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database and the The University Greys.1

Birth

c. 1843

Notes

1   Brown, Maud Morrow, The University Greys: Company A, Eleventh Mississippi Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865, Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, Inc., 1940, pg. 77  [AotW citation 21347]