Charles Anderson Floyd, the eldest of his siblings, was born at "Locust Grove," the ancestral home of his mother in Bedford County, VA on February 28, 1821. Educated in the private schools of Lynchburg and at the New London Academy, he was an adventurous youth who at the age of nineteen rode horseback eight hundred miles through a sparsely settle region to Bond County, Illinois, in order to visit his paternal grandmother.
On November 18, 1845, he married Miss Mildred Jane Perkins, only daughter of Hardin Perkins, a prominent merchant of Nelson County, VA, and his wife, Sarah Mosby. She gave birth to nine children between 1846 and 1864, the last three of whom were born during the War Between the States.
When the war broke out, Charles immediately enlisted and helped organize a cavalry company under Colonel Radford. According to his brother, "he refused to accept an office, insisting that young men in the early vigor of manhood, and with military schooling or training, should be chosen to lead." He fought many battles but would lose his life in the Appomattox campaign. His brother, Nicholas Jackson Floyd, writes that he was killed April 6, 1865 at the battle of Sailor's creek, but in 2007 Charles Blunt found a newspaper clipping pasted in the Perkins family Bible that he partially transcribed as follows:
"Killed instantly at the battle near Hatchers Run, March 31st, 1865, CHARLES A. FLOYD of Campbell Co. Va., aged 43 years. At the beginning of the war he served for fifteen months in the Wise troop from Lynchburg; was then obliged to leave the army for some time due to failure of health; and again, in 1864, he joined the 8th Virginia Infantry with which he continued til he sealed his blood... to the cause which he had..."
We learn further from N. J. Floyd that a fellow soldier, Captain Camp, who was only a few rods behind Charles when he fell, reported to him that "the Federals had attempted to turn our right flank, but we had stopped them and started them on a run, some of them firing back occasionally. We knew, of course, that they had greatly superior numbers, and our only hope was to keep them moving. We were dismounted, and in our pursuit, through the thick forest growth, we came upon a forester's cabin with an enclosed yard and stable lot. Being tall and athletic, and a swift runner, Mr. Floyd was the first over the fence, and, running half across the lot, he sprang upon a pile of stable-bedding and trash, to get a better view, and shouted back: 'Hurry up boys! We mustn't give them time to rally!' At that instant a bullet pierced his heart, killing him so suddenly that not a muscle twitched after we reached him."
Charles Anderson Floyd was buried nearby with some fifteen or eighteen others in the silent forest. Years passed before members of the family could make a search for his grave, and then it could not be found. His wife Mildred was widowed with eight children, two of whom were under the age of 2, but somehow she and the children managed. First Charles, then later Walter would tend to the family farm. Mildred died sometime between 1880 and 1900.
[Source: Kirk LeCompte 2010]
On November 18, 1845, he married Miss Mildred Jane Perkins, only daughter of Hardin Perkins, a prominent merchant of Nelson County, VA, and his wife, Sarah Mosby. She gave birth to nine children between 1846 and 1864, the last three of whom were born during the War Between the States.
When the war broke out, Charles immediately enlisted and helped organize a cavalry company under Colonel Radford. According to his brother, "he refused to accept an office, insisting that young men in the early vigor of manhood, and with military schooling or training, should be chosen to lead." He fought many battles but would lose his life in the Appomattox campaign. His brother, Nicholas Jackson Floyd, writes that he was killed April 6, 1865 at the battle of Sailor's creek, but in 2007 Charles Blunt found a newspaper clipping pasted in the Perkins family Bible that he partially transcribed as follows:
"Killed instantly at the battle near Hatchers Run, March 31st, 1865, CHARLES A. FLOYD of Campbell Co. Va., aged 43 years. At the beginning of the war he served for fifteen months in the Wise troop from Lynchburg; was then obliged to leave the army for some time due to failure of health; and again, in 1864, he joined the 8th Virginia Infantry with which he continued til he sealed his blood... to the cause which he had..."
We learn further from N. J. Floyd that a fellow soldier, Captain Camp, who was only a few rods behind Charles when he fell, reported to him that "the Federals had attempted to turn our right flank, but we had stopped them and started them on a run, some of them firing back occasionally. We knew, of course, that they had greatly superior numbers, and our only hope was to keep them moving. We were dismounted, and in our pursuit, through the thick forest growth, we came upon a forester's cabin with an enclosed yard and stable lot. Being tall and athletic, and a swift runner, Mr. Floyd was the first over the fence, and, running half across the lot, he sprang upon a pile of stable-bedding and trash, to get a better view, and shouted back: 'Hurry up boys! We mustn't give them time to rally!' At that instant a bullet pierced his heart, killing him so suddenly that not a muscle twitched after we reached him."
Charles Anderson Floyd was buried nearby with some fifteen or eighteen others in the silent forest. Years passed before members of the family could make a search for his grave, and then it could not be found. His wife Mildred was widowed with eight children, two of whom were under the age of 2, but somehow she and the children managed. First Charles, then later Walter would tend to the family farm. Mildred died sometime between 1880 and 1900.
[Source: Kirk LeCompte 2010]
Charles Anderson Floyd, the eldest of his siblings, was born at "Locust Grove," the ancestral home of his mother in Bedford County, VA on February 28, 1821. Educated in the private schools of Lynchburg and at the New London Academy, he was an adventurous youth who at the age of nineteen rode horseback eight hundred miles through a sparsely settle region to Bond County, Illinois, in order to visit his paternal grandmother.
On November 18, 1845, he married Miss Mildred Jane Perkins, only daughter of Hardin Perkins, a prominent merchant of Nelson County, VA, and his wife, Sarah Mosby. She gave birth to nine children between 1846 and 1864, the last three of whom were born during the War Between the States.
When the war broke out, Charles immediately enlisted and helped organize a cavalry company under Colonel Radford. According to his brother, "he refused to accept an office, insisting that young men in the early vigor of manhood, and with military schooling or training, should be chosen to lead." He fought many battles but would lose his life in the Appomattox campaign. His brother, Nicholas Jackson Floyd, writes that he was killed April 6, 1865 at the battle of Sailor's creek, but in 2007 Charles Blunt found a newspaper clipping pasted in the Perkins family Bible that he partially transcribed as follows:
"Killed instantly at the battle near Hatchers Run, March 31st, 1865, CHARLES A. FLOYD of Campbell Co. Va., aged 43 years. At the beginning of the war he served for fifteen months in the Wise troop from Lynchburg; was then obliged to leave the army for some time due to failure of health; and again, in 1864, he joined the 8th Virginia Infantry with which he continued til he sealed his blood... to the cause which he had..."
We learn further from N. J. Floyd that a fellow soldier, Captain Camp, who was only a few rods behind Charles when he fell, reported to him that "the Federals had attempted to turn our right flank, but we had stopped them and started them on a run, some of them firing back occasionally. We knew, of course, that they had greatly superior numbers, and our only hope was to keep them moving. We were dismounted, and in our pursuit, through the thick forest growth, we came upon a forester's cabin with an enclosed yard and stable lot. Being tall and athletic, and a swift runner, Mr. Floyd was the first over the fence, and, running half across the lot, he sprang upon a pile of stable-bedding and trash, to get a better view, and shouted back: 'Hurry up boys! We mustn't give them time to rally!' At that instant a bullet pierced his heart, killing him so suddenly that not a muscle twitched after we reached him."
Charles Anderson Floyd was buried nearby with some fifteen or eighteen others in the silent forest. Years passed before members of the family could make a search for his grave, and then it could not be found. His wife Mildred was widowed with eight children, two of whom were under the age of 2, but somehow she and the children managed. First Charles, then later Walter would tend to the family farm. Mildred died sometime between 1880 and 1900.
[Source: Kirk LeCompte 2010]
On November 18, 1845, he married Miss Mildred Jane Perkins, only daughter of Hardin Perkins, a prominent merchant of Nelson County, VA, and his wife, Sarah Mosby. She gave birth to nine children between 1846 and 1864, the last three of whom were born during the War Between the States.
When the war broke out, Charles immediately enlisted and helped organize a cavalry company under Colonel Radford. According to his brother, "he refused to accept an office, insisting that young men in the early vigor of manhood, and with military schooling or training, should be chosen to lead." He fought many battles but would lose his life in the Appomattox campaign. His brother, Nicholas Jackson Floyd, writes that he was killed April 6, 1865 at the battle of Sailor's creek, but in 2007 Charles Blunt found a newspaper clipping pasted in the Perkins family Bible that he partially transcribed as follows:
"Killed instantly at the battle near Hatchers Run, March 31st, 1865, CHARLES A. FLOYD of Campbell Co. Va., aged 43 years. At the beginning of the war he served for fifteen months in the Wise troop from Lynchburg; was then obliged to leave the army for some time due to failure of health; and again, in 1864, he joined the 8th Virginia Infantry with which he continued til he sealed his blood... to the cause which he had..."
We learn further from N. J. Floyd that a fellow soldier, Captain Camp, who was only a few rods behind Charles when he fell, reported to him that "the Federals had attempted to turn our right flank, but we had stopped them and started them on a run, some of them firing back occasionally. We knew, of course, that they had greatly superior numbers, and our only hope was to keep them moving. We were dismounted, and in our pursuit, through the thick forest growth, we came upon a forester's cabin with an enclosed yard and stable lot. Being tall and athletic, and a swift runner, Mr. Floyd was the first over the fence, and, running half across the lot, he sprang upon a pile of stable-bedding and trash, to get a better view, and shouted back: 'Hurry up boys! We mustn't give them time to rally!' At that instant a bullet pierced his heart, killing him so suddenly that not a muscle twitched after we reached him."
Charles Anderson Floyd was buried nearby with some fifteen or eighteen others in the silent forest. Years passed before members of the family could make a search for his grave, and then it could not be found. His wife Mildred was widowed with eight children, two of whom were under the age of 2, but somehow she and the children managed. First Charles, then later Walter would tend to the family farm. Mildred died sometime between 1880 and 1900.
[Source: Kirk LeCompte 2010]
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