Leroy Thomas Daughtry

In 1860 he was a 20 year old student living with his tavern keeper father Enos and siblings at Monticello in Lawrence County, MS. He enlisted on 30 March 1861 at Brookhaven, MS and mustered as a Private in Company C, 12th Mississippi Infantry at Corinth, MS on 12 May 1861. He was appointed First Corporal by January 1862 and promoted to 2nd Sergeant, date not given.

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

He was on furlough home to about December 1862. He was captured on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864 and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until sent to Aiken's Landing, VA on 14 March 1865 for exchange. Giving his residence as Lawrence County, MS, he was paroled at Jackson, MS on 19 May 1865.

By 1870 he was a farmer at Hazlehurst in Copiah County, MS.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave; the government provided his headstone in August 1930.

He married Mary Quin Weathersby (1849-1939) in 1865 and they had 3 chidren.

c. 1841; Lawrence County, MS

12/04/1871; Copiah County, MS; burial in Masonic Cemetery, Monticello, MS