Franklin Tyler Dunklin

Going by Tyler, in 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer on (relative?) M. H. Dunklin's substantial plantation at Burnsville in Dallas County, AL, and owned 4 slaves. He enlisted in Selma on 26 September 1861 as a Private in Company A, 4th Alabama Infantry for the "residue" of their one year term, but was sick in Richmond, VA hospitals from 7 November to at least February 1862, and was discharged there on 11 December 1861.

He may have had brief service as a Corporal in the 90-day 4th Alabama Militia about April 1862, then enlisted again, at Falling Creek near Richmond, VA on 28 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 44th Alabama Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot through his left thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to CS General Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 4 October (where he gave his occupation as medical student), furloughed home on the 9th, and returned to his company in January 1863. He was wounded again, by a gunshot through his left index finger and left lung at Chickamauga, GA on September 1863. He was in the hospital at Howard's Grove in Richmond in July 1864 and detailed there to January 1865; he requested appointment as Hospital Steward on 16 January, but was returned to his unit on 23 January "his services are not required" at the hospital. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 his wife and daughters were living with her siblings in Autauga County, AL, but he was not in the household. He moved to Polk County, FL in February 1883.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Tyler F. Dunklin and F.T. Dunklin. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, the population and slave schedules of the US Census of 1860, the population schedules of 1870 & 1880, and his pension application of July 1909. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Henrietta Clay "Henri" Reed (1843-1925) in March 1862 and they had 3 daughters.

His brother Lt. William Arnold Dunklin (b. 1828) was ill and not at Sharpsburg, but was Captain of Company G when he was killed at Gettysburg in July 1863.

04/22/1840 in AL

11/18/1909; Lakeland, FL; burial in Lakeview Cemetery, Lakeland, FL