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PVT Drury Layfield

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PVT Drury Layfield Veteran

Birth
Talbot County, Georgia, USA
Death
20 Jul 1862 (aged 19)
Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Burial
Mauk, Taylor County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
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Drury was a farmer before the Civil War. He enlisted as a Private in Company "F", 27th Georgia Infantry on 20 September 1861. Her served in that Company with his cousins John H., George W. and Wiliam H. Layfield. The 27th Georgia served in Virginia and saw action at the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill and Malvern Hill.

Drury died of "Typhoid Fever," per the records of Richmond's Shockoe Hill Cemetery, where he was first buried. He died at the "First Georgia Hospital", located in Smith's Factory on 21st Street, between Main and Cary streets. (That hospital was later designated General Hospital No. 16.)

His remains were "Disinterred and removed to Georgia" on 6 December 1862 per Shockoe Hill Cemetery records, presumably to his family cemetery.
Drury was a farmer before the Civil War. He enlisted as a Private in Company "F", 27th Georgia Infantry on 20 September 1861. Her served in that Company with his cousins John H., George W. and Wiliam H. Layfield. The 27th Georgia served in Virginia and saw action at the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill and Malvern Hill.

Drury died of "Typhoid Fever," per the records of Richmond's Shockoe Hill Cemetery, where he was first buried. He died at the "First Georgia Hospital", located in Smith's Factory on 21st Street, between Main and Cary streets. (That hospital was later designated General Hospital No. 16.)

His remains were "Disinterred and removed to Georgia" on 6 December 1862 per Shockoe Hill Cemetery records, presumably to his family cemetery.


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