Notes for Frank Doty: In the 1850 and 1860 census, Frank lived in St. Mary Ph., with his widowed mother. His occupation was listed as a carpenter in 1860.
Frank DOTY served in the Civil War as a private with Company G, 13th Louisiana Infantry. He enlisted on 11 September 1861 at Camp Moore, Louisiana. Frank's name appears on a list of men of the 13th Regiment Louisiana Volunteers who returned from the field of Shiloh without arms. The list was dated 23 May 1862. On the Roll for June to 31 October 1362, Frank was listed as present. The Roll for November and December 1862, dated 20 January 1863 states Frank died at a hospital on 2 December 1862. (Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers)
The Battle of Shiloh that Frank participated in was one of the greatest battles ever fought on American soil. The Battle of Shiloh took place on the west bank of the Tennessee River, one hundred miles east of Memphis on 6-7 April 1862. One hundred thousand men fought at Shiloh, and the casualties were high. The Union sustained more than 13,000 casualties and the Confederacy more than 10,000. Casualties came to roughly 24 percent. The Battle of Shiloh was forever to be called "Bloody Shiloh."
"General Grant recalled the carnage more than 20 years later in his memoirs : 'I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges the day before, so covered with dead that it would have been possible to walk across the clearing, in any direction, stepping on dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground."' (The Civil War)
"Who won the Battle of Shiloh? Although both sides claimed the victory, it was a Northern victory, since it forced the enemy back on Corinth, forced them to evacuate much of Tenn., and opened the way to the final splitting of the Confederacy along the Mississippi. The Confederates failed to destroy the Union army and were forced to withdraw from the battlefield, leaving many of their dead and wounded. The generalship on both sides was defective; 'Bloody Shiloh' was a 'Soldier's Battle."' (The Civil War Dictionary)
Frank DOTY died at a hospital at about age 25 years on 2 December 1362 from injuries received while serving in the Civil War. Frank DOTY probably never married.
Frank Doty (b. 1837, d. date unknown)
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