Samuel Giles Watkins

Age 23, from Panola County, he enlisted there on 27 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 17th Mississippi Infantry at Corinth on 27 May.

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

He was admitted to a hospital in Culpeper, VA on 24 September, sent to Charlottesville on 26 September, then on to Lynchburg. He received pay in Richmond, VA on 18 October 1862. His arm was paralyzed and he was deemed permanently disabled and furloughed home.

In 1870 he was farming in Lavaca County, TX but by 1880 and to at least 1900 was a farmer in Caldwell County, TX. He had retired in Lockhart, TX by 1910 and was a widower living with two teen-aged granddaughters there in 1920. He died on his (94th?) birthday in 1931.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, indexed under Wadkins. Personal details from descendant Margaret Watkins Anderson in the UDC's Patriot Ancestor Album (1999), family genealogists, and the US Census of 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He enlisted with friend and neighbor Joseph Hardie; both were wounded at Sharpsburg and they later married each other's sisters. His wife was Amanda Caroline Hardie (1837-1916).

09/11/1837 in MS

09/11/1931; in TX; burial in Lockhart Municipal Burial Park, Lockhart, TX