William Floyd Pitts

In 1860 he was a married 24 year old farmer at Oaky Streak in Butler County, AL. He enlisted at Greenville, Butler County, AL on 21 June (or 2 July) 1861 and mustered in Montgomery, AL on 19 July as a Private in Company G of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in Maryland but was left behind, sick, at Frederick, MD and captured there about 13 September 1862.

He was sent to Fort McHenry, MD on 26 September, transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 2 October, and was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 30 October 1862. He wounded at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again a farmer in Butler County, AL.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives,2 which says he was captured on South Mountain on 14 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and his son E.T. (Elisha Tanner) Pitts' August 1930 government gravestone application. His gravesite is on Findagrave. He also has a stone, perhaps a misidentification, in Troy, Pike County, AL.

He married Louiza Susan “Elizabeth” Pruitt (1839-) in December 1857 and they had as many as 10 children.

c. 1836; Jones County, GA

07/15/1888; burial in Consolation Cemetery, Oaky Streak, AL