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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel Stovall

(c. 1822 - 1864)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 38 year old carpenter living on Thomas I Stallings' plantation at Rutledges in Morgan County, GA. He enlisted in Richmond, VA on 25 August 1861 (1862?) and mustered as a Private in Company G of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA on 2 (or 6) October for exchange, declared formally exchanged on 10 November, and was back with his company by December 1862. There is no later record of him with the Legion.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1822; Morgan County, GA

Death

02/05/1864; Madison, GA; burial in Madison Historic Cemeteries, Madison, GA

Notes

1 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 33906]

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