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Federal (USV)

Private

William Loyd

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 22 year old living with his parents and 4 siblings on their farm at Mount Pleasant in Martin County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the arm and listed as captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862. There is no later record.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. He's also seen as William Lloyd.

His brother Elias was also in Company C.

Birth

c. 1838 in IN

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 277 [AotW citation 33373]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 294 [AotW citation 33537]

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