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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

James L. Floyd

(? - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

On 1 April 1861 he was elected 2nd Lieutenant of what became Company G, 2nd Battalion, Mississippi State Troops. He was wounded near Richmond, VA in June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action and left on the field at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. He was later listed as killed outright at Sharpsburg.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi. Thanks to J.O. Smith for the pointer to Floyd.

Birth

Date not known in MS

Death

1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 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 28950]

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