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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alexander Tatum Floyd

"Alex"

(1834 - 1876)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Palmetto, GA by April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 19th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 5 October then transferred for exchange, place not given. In April 1863 he was detailed as a sub-overseer to James Island, SC and was on that duty to at least December 1863. He was with his company to at least May 1864, the latest record in his military file.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farmer at Smyrna in Cobb County, GA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Ella Florence (1837-1910) in January 1859 and they had 5 children.

Birth

08/24/1834 in GA

Death

12/13/1876; Cobb County, GA; burial in Concord Cemetery, Smyrna, GA

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 34220]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #430 [AotW citation 34221]

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