Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios - Gen. John Buchanan Floyd

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                                   FLOYD
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   FLOYD, GEN. JOHN BUCHANAN, born in Virginia, 1807. Served in Virginia
   legislature 1847-49. Governor of the State, 1850-53. Secretary of War
   under President Buchanan, 1857-60, when he resigned and joined the
   Confederacy. Commissioned brigadier-general in Confederate army in
   1861. Defeated at Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862, but escaped
   capture by turning over his command to Pillow, and fleeing. Relieved
   of his command shortly after.