Sunday, January 5, 2014

January 6, 1864---Massapequa answers the call!



JANUARY 6, 1864:   

John G. Floyd, a scion of the Floyd family of South Oyster Bay (Massapequa) New York, after having enlisted in the Union Army in 1862 and having fought at Frederick, Maryland, Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, Fairfax, Virginia, Burnside’s Mud March, and Anderson, Tennessee,  is mustered out of the U.S. Army as a Captain.



In New Mexico Territory, Kit Carson begins a war against the Navajo Nation.
 

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