Hay Taliaferro Battaile

The youngest of 4 children of wealthy Episcopalian clergyman and planter Lawrence Battaile (1796-1860), in 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his father, 2 siblings, and 23 slaves on their plantation in Caroline County, VA. He enlisted at Marlboro Point, VA on 30 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 30th Virginia Infantry.

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

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 7 October, furloughed for 20 days on 28 October, and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He signed a parole at Ashland, VA on 27 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was farming with his brother John at Bloomfield in Loudoun County, VA, but by 1900 they were farming together in Polk County, FL. In 1910 he was a civil engineer there.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave. He was probably named for his paternal grandmother Anne Hay Taliaferro (1773-1841), though there were other Hays in his line.

03/1842; Caroline County, VA

10/15/1915; Jacksonville, FL; burial in Gandy Cemetery, Bartow, FL