John Floyd

A 24 year old store clerk in Darlington, he served as 3rd Sergeant of the Darlington Guards, a militia company in 1860 and 1861. He then helped raise and was enrolled as Junior 2nd Lieutenant of Company I, 18th South Carolina Infantry on 10 January 1862 at Camp Hampton, SC. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant in May 1862.

He was slightly wounded in the head in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was promoted to First Lieutenant to date from 17 September 1862 and to Captain on 14 December 1863. He was wounded in the right knee at the Crater near Petersburg, VA in July 1864 and slightly, again, at Five Forks, VA and by a piece of shell in the arm at Fort Stedman in March 1865. He surrendered with his Company at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

He was a merchandiser in Darlington until retiring in 1890, then and operated "several large plantations."

His service from his Compiled Service Records, online from fold3. His wounds and other details from a bio sketch in the History.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Tamsie A Bland (1845-1910) in 1865 and they had 8 children.

01/20/1836; Darlington District, SC

07/04/1910; in SC; burial in Grove Hill Cemetery, Darlington, SC