Samuel Allister McAllister

He moved to Delaware as a child, and was at sea for six years before the War. He enlisted at age 21 in Company F, First Delaware Infantry on 21 September 1861 and was appointed Sergeant.

He was present at Antietam.

He was wounded in action at Fredericksburg on 13 December 1862. He was Regimental Sergeant Major for six days, being appointed 18 December, then was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant, Company B on 24 December 1862, and First Lieutenant, Company F, on 20 January 1863. He was with the Regiment to the end of the War.

He was assessor of internal revenue from 1869 to 1872, studied the law, and was admitted to the bar of Delaware in December 1872. He then practiced in Wilmington, and before the US Supreme Court. He served two terms as city solicitor and was later US commissioner, and chief supervisor of elections for the district of Delaware.

Basic information from State of Delaware1. Details from his gravesite on Findagrave. His photograph from one in the Seville Collection of Civil War Soldiers carte de visites at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Washington, DC.

09/10/1839; Philadelphia, PA

09/12/1903; burial in Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, DE