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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles E. Floyd

(? - 1863)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Anderson in Grimes County, TX as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 19 July 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond on 31 January 1863 with variola dist (smallpox) but died there of gangrene (!) on 26 February.

References & notes

His service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Death

02/26/1863; Richmond, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1838]

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 26885]

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