F.A. Tatum

Confederate (CSV)

Private

Francis Asbury Tatum

"Frank"

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farm worker at Millwood in Dooly County, GA. He enlisted, with his brother James (1839-1888), as a Private in Company I, 18th Georgia Infantry on 22 June 1861 at Camp McDonald, Kennesaw, GA.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 with no later military or civil record, and was probably killed there.

References & notes

Service information from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His picture from a photograph shared to the Geni database by Andrew Lee Jarrett; thanks to Greyson Beardsley for sending a nice copy.

Birth

c. 1836 in GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 9521]

2 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 27762]

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