Pauline Mitchell Pierce
Evan M. Floyd - Camp Douglas forwarded to City Point, Va.,
Wed Feb 28 12:27:24 2001


Can anyone please help me on this problem, I have searched for more than 20 years, trying to learn where this g.g.grandfather died. This is what I know of him.

EVAN M. FLOYD enlisted in Co. H, 18 Reg't. Alabama Infantry on 29 July 1861 at Troy, Ala, Capt. W. L. Hamner. Pvt., (EVIN) EVAN M. FLOYD was captured at Resacca, Ga. on 15 May 1864. He fought in the battles of Shiloh, Blacklands, Perryville, both days at Chickamauga, Lookout Mtns, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, Rocky Fall Ridge, Resacca.
He appeared on a roll of prisoners of war at Nashville, Tenn., captured by forces under Maj. Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, commanding Dept. of the Cumberland, and forwarded to Capt. S.E. Jones, Pro. Mar. Gen., District of Kentucky, Louisville, Ky., May 20, 1864.
He appeared on a roll of prisoners of war at Louisville, Ky., transferred to Camp Morton, Ind., May 21, 1864.
He was paroled at Camp Morton, Ind., and forwarded to City Point, Va., via Baltimore, Md., for exchange. Roll dated Headquarters Camp Morton, Ind., February 26, 1865.
The records of Camp Morton shows that on the night of 26 Feb. 1865 the temperature was below freezing and a cold rain was falling, the prisoners were loaded into an open cattle car for shipment to City Point, Va. EVIN M. FLOYD did not survive the ride. He never arrived home. Just where he was buried is unknown.

Thanks.








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