Samuel Jackson

In 1860 he was a 24 year old laborer living next door to his parents near Greensboro in Guilford County, NC. He enlisted in Forsyth County, NC on 9 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 48th North Carolina Infantry.

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 at Fort McHenry in Baltimore by 8 October, and transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA on 11 October for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 18 October then sent to the paroled camp there, and was back with his company by February 1863. He was wounded by a gunshot through his thigh at Bristoe Station, VA in October 1863. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left arm at Appomattox Court House, VA in April 1865 and captured, admitted to the US 24th Corps (Army of the James) field hospital on 11 April, and sent to a US Army hospital in Burkeville, VA on 13 April. He was transferred again, on 16 April 1865, with no later record in his military file. He also appears on a list of men surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 he was a farm worker near Westminster in Guilford County, NC and in 1880 worked in a cotton mill at High Point, NC. By 1900 he was a miner living with his youngest, daughter Francis (Hayes) and her family in Lexington, Davidson County, NC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860-1900 and his (undated) Confederate pension application. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Louiza L. Gray (1839-1900) in April 1856 and they had 5 children.

His father William (1812-1863) was also in Company K of the 48th, but was probably not in Maryland in 1862. He died of disease in a hospital in Lynchburg, VA on 13 January 1863.

c. 1837; Guilford County, NC

06/01/1910; Lexington, NC; burial in Lexington City Cemetery, Lexington, NC