Samuel Yongue Cater

In 1860 he was 31 years old and ran a boarding house in Selma, AL. He enlisted there on 26 April 1861 as a Private in Company A, 4th Alabama Infantry and his company mustered into Confederate service on 7 May at Lynchburg, VA. He was appointed 3rd Sergeant on 8 November 1861.

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

He was furloughed for 60 days from 24 November 1862, and listed as absent without leave by April 1863. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA in July with chronic nephritis (kidney disease) and returned to his company about August, reduced in rank again to Private, and was next in action at Chickamauga, GA in September. He was promoted to 4th Corporal on 1 December, was 3rd Corporal by February 1864, and was wounded again, slightly, in the leg at Petersburg, VA later that year. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 he was teaching school back in Selma, AL, in 1872 he was appointed the Principal of the Munford (AL) Academy, and in 1880 was teaching in Talladega County, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and the Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Oglethorpe University (1852). His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by Stanley A. Hutson. Thanks to Greyson Beardsley for the pointer to Cater and his photograph.

He married Sarah Virginia "Sallie" Love (1829-1909) in May 1853 and they had 5 children.

05/05/1829 in SC

03/09/1889; in AL; burial in Hillside Cemetery, Anniston, AL