Francis Moultrie Sampey

Son of an Irish-born father who came to America in 1824, in 1860 Francis was a 17 year old farm worker living with his parents, 5 siblings, and 24 slaves on their plantation at Belleville in Conecuh County, AL. By then a student, he enlisted in Sparta, AL on 25 April 1861 and mustered in Lynchburg, VA on 7 May as a Private in Company E, 4th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded by a gunshot to his foot at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange, arriving 27 September. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 30 September and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862, but was absent on furlough and in hospitals to about March 1863. He was afterward present with his company in action in most engagements until they were surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he had a retail store at Evergreen in Conecuh County, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records.1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Susan Ursula Stallworth (1845-1922) in March 1870 and probably had 2 children; their 2nd, infant son Chesley died soon after his father, in October 1873.

02/22/1843; Belleville, AL

10/01/1873; Selma, AL; burial in Belleville United Methodist Church Cemetery, Belleville, AL