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(c. 1825 - 1863)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 35 year old blacksmith in Denton County, Texas. On 15 March 1862 he enlisted in Austin as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was sent to CS General Hospital #20 in Richmond, VA on 14 November 1862 and died there of febris typhoides on 5 January 1863.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Margaret Emerick (1831-1858) in San Antonio in 1856 and they had two children.
His great grandson Dr. Timothy C. Tatum (Chaplain and Colonel, USA, ret.) self-published Never to Return Home, John M. Tatum and the Fourth Texas Infantry Regiment in 2010.
Birth
c. 1825 in NC
Death
01/05/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1697]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26795]