Name Stacy J Purdy

Age 11

Birth Year abt 1849

Gender Male

Race White

Birth Place Pennsylvania

Home in 1860 Floyd, Floyd, Iowa

Post Office Floyd

Dwelling Number 467

Family Number 455

Attended School Y

Household members

Name Age

Samuel C Purdy 46

Farnny Purdy 57

Esther A Purdy 13

Stacy J Purdy 11

SOURCE-1860 Census

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Name Stacy J Purdy

Enlistment Age 17 *

Birth Date abt 1846

Birth Place Pennsylvania, USA

Enlistment Date 3 Dec 1863

Enlistment Rank Private

Muster Date 31 Dec 1863

Muster Place Iowa

Muster Company G

Muster Regiment 27th Infantry

Muster Regiment Type Infantry

Muster Information Enlisted

Imprisonment Date 9 Apr 1864

Imprisonment Place Pleasant Hill, Louisiana

Casualty Date 9 Apr 1864

Casualty Place Pleasant Hill, Louisiana

Type of Casualty Wounded

Casualty Information Wounded severely

Muster Out Date 11 May 1864

Muster Out Place Pleasant Hill, Louisiana

Muster Out Information died wounds

Side of War Union

Survived War? No

Was POW? Yes

Injured in Line of Duty? Yes

Residence Place Floyd, Iowa

Title Roster & Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of Rebellion

SOURCE- U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865

NOTE- If his birth year on the stone is correct he died at age 15, and it likely is as the 1860 census states he was 11 that year.

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From "Iowa and the Rebellion", Lurton D. Ingersoll, Dubuque, 1866:

Co. G, 27th Iowa Infantry.

Purdy, Stacy J. Age 17. Residence Floyd, nativity Pennsylvania. Enlisted Dec. 3, 1863. Mustered Dec. 31, 1863. Wounded severely and taken prisoner April 9, 1864, Pleasant Hill, LA. Died of wounds ( abdomen, severe,dangerous) May 11, 1864, Pleasant Hill, LA

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WPA graves survey note says "Civil". His father filed for a pension while in Dakota Terr. July 5,1888. Approval # 375834, Cert.# 279621. Co.G, 27th Iowa Infantry.

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Name Stacy J Purdy

Birth Date 8 Jan 1849

Death Date 11 May 1864

Age 15

Burial Location Floyd, Floyd

Cemetery Oakwood

General Burial Info Civil

Source Tombstone Records of Floyd County

Page number 90

SOURCE- Iowa, U.S., Cemetery Records

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