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CPL Lloyd “Loyd” Blair

10 Jan 1834 – 1 Dec 1862

Birth10 Jan 1834
Death1 Dec 1862
CemeteryLebanon National Cemetery
Lebanon , Marion County , Kentucky , USA
Added byAnom on 21 Feb 2018
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174941310

Gravesite details

Lloyd Blair is resting in a well-documented unmarked grave. It will be easy to find his grave using burial records for Lebanon Nat. Cem. stored at the U.S. National Archives. Map the marked graves, build a grid, and mark grave site 586 in Section 4.

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Marriages: 1)Nov 7, 1858 to Piety S. James; she died September 7, 1959. 2)Aug 15, 1861 to Lou Manessa Kidd. . Military Service: Confederate Soldier 3rd Corporal, Company K, 41st Georgia Infantry Regiment. Lloyd was mortally wounded on 8 Oct 1862 at the Battle of Perryville, KY while leading his men as part of Maney's Brigade in one of three uphill charges to capture the Union batteries of Parsons on hill #1 and Starkweather twice on hill #2 at the far left of the Union line. The 41st Georgia Infantry Regiment anchored the far right of the Confederate line of battle. His brother, Private Allen Blair, was with him during the battle. Along with the other Confederate wounded, Lloyd Blair was either left behind at the Goodnight farm about one mile east of the battlefield, or transported by wagon to Harrodsburg, ten miles from the battlefield, when the Confederate army departed back toward TN. Federal troops captured the wounded Confederate Soldiers left behind, making them Prisoners of War. Muster rolls for Lloyd Blair show him having died in a private home in Lebanon, KY on 20 Dec 1862, two and a half months after the battle. He must have received good medical care to have lived so long after being wounded. . Perryville Battle Description from NPS.gov: Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg's autumn 1862 invasion of Kentucky had reached the outskirts of Louisville and Cincinnati, but he was forced to retreat and regroup. On October 7, the Federal army of Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, numbering nearly 55,000, converged on the small crossroads town of Perryville, Kentucky, in three columns. Union forces first skirmished with Rebel cavalry on the Springfield Pike before the fighting became more general, on Peters Hill, as the gray-clad infantry arrived. The next day, at dawn, fighting began again around Peters Hill as a Union division advanced up the pike, halting just before the Confederate line. The fighting then stopped for a time. After noon, a Confederate division struck the Union left flank and forced it to fall back. When more Confederate divisions joined the fray, the Union line made a stubborn stand, counterattacked, but finally fell back with some troops routed. Buell did not know of the happenings on the field, or he would have sent forward some reserves. Even so, the Union troops on the left flank, reinforced by two brigades, stabilized their line, and the Rebel attack sputtered to a halt. Later, a Rebel brigade assaulted the Union division on the Springfield Pike but was repulsed and fell back into Perryville. The Yankees pursued, and skirmishing occurred in the streets in the evening before dark. Union reinforcements were threatening the Rebel left flank by now. Bragg, short of men and supplies, withdrew during the night, and, after pausing at Harrodsburg, continued the Confederate retrograde by way of Cumberland Gap into East Tennessee. The Confederate offensive was over, and the Union controlled Kentucky.

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