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F.L. Riley

F.L. Riley

Confederate (CSV)

Private

Franklin Lafayette Riley

(1835 - 1907)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 25 year old school teacher living with his father and siblings on the family farm at Monticello in Lawrence County, MS. He enlisted at Westville, MS on 26 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 29 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his arm in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in a CS Army hospital in Culpeper, VA on 25 September, at Charlottesville, VA the next day, and sent on to Lynchburg, VA on the 27th. He was furloughed home and returned to his Company by February 1863. He was captured at Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until he took an oath of allegiance and was released on 30 June 1865. He was provided transportation to Vicksburg, MS from Washington, DC on 1 July 1865.

After the War

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a dry goods merchant in Lawrence County, MS.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as S.T. Riley. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by Stanley A. Hutson.

He married Elmyra Balsorah Indiana Weathersby (1845-1921) while home recovering from his Sharpsburg wound in October 1862, and they had 12 children.

Birth

02/10/1835; Lawrence County, MS

Death

02/19/1907; New Hebron, MS; burial in New Hebron Cemetery, New Hebron, MS

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 29602]