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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel W. Tumblin

(1842 - 1864)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He mustered in to Company I, 8th Florida Infantry on 14 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He was mortally wounded on the right side in action in early 1864, place and date not given. He died of wounds in Howard's Grove Hospital, Richmond.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Florida1, which lists him as Samuel S. Tumplin. Details from family genealogists, who have his birth year as 1842 or 1843, and his birthplace as Florida or Georgia. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1842 in FL

Death

06/19/1864; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

Notes

1 State of Florida, Board of State Institutions, Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars, Live Oak (FL): Democrat Print, 1903, pp. 204 - 206 [AotW citation 15538]

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