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« Thread Started on Feb 27, 2005, 2:25am » | |
At this time the only evidence I have of our Sam's confederate service is the few comments recorded in the 1860-1866 Journal kept by James Madison Hall (1819-1866) . . . I still need to look for our Sam at the Confederate Research Center in Hillsboro . . . if any of y'all find out anything, please do let me know . . .
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« Reply #1 on Apr 8, 2008, 12:52pm » | |
On April 16, 1862, the Confederate Congress passed the first national conscription law in American history. All white males between 18 and 35, not legally exempt, were declared members of the Confederate Army for a term of three years or until the war ended. Those who wished to volunteer before being drafted were allowed to do so and to choose their own company. Those who did not care to enter the service were allowed to provide a substitute from "persons not liable for duty."
On April 21, 1862, the Congress set up an elaborate list of exemptions from military duty. Those included were Confederate and state civil officials, mail carriers, ferrymen, river and railway workers, telegraphic operators, miners and metalworkers, laborers in cotton and woolen factories, newspaper printers, one apothecary for each establishment, ministers of religion, professors in colleges and academies and teachers with as many as 20 pupils, teachers in deaf, dumb and blind institutions, and nurses and attendants in hospitals.
On September 27, 1862, Congress amended the Conscription Act to increase the age limit from 35 to 45.
On October 11, 1862, following the 2nd Conscription law, the number of exemptions were greatly increased. Exemptions were added for one editor for each newspaper, shoemakers, tanners, blacksmiths, millers, wheelwrights and other industrial workers. Acricutural exemptions were included allowing an exemption to one person for every 500 head of cattle or sheep or 250 head of horses or mules; one overseer for every plantation containing as many as 20 slaves, and one overseeer for any two plantations not more than five miles apart having as many as 20 slaves combined. People with religious scruples against war, including Quakers, Dunkards, Nazarenes and Mennonites were exempted if they provided a substitute or paid $500.
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25 Dec 1862 . . . The drafting of the militia came off in Crockett and Sam Sharp was drawn to serve under the three months call for the protection of our coast . . . James M. Hall . . .
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« Reply #2 on Apr 8, 2008, 12:52pm » | |
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1 Jan 1863 ... it is agreed however between Sam Sharp & I that he shall act as the miller, I attending only during his absence. Nellie is still sick but improving ...
7 Jan 1863 ... Sam Sharp who had been heretofore drafted in the Militia left home on my horse Rob for the place of rendezvous at the Shilo Camp ground, but before he left he ground 14 bushels of corn ...
9 Jan 1863 ... In the evening Sam Sharp returned on Rob from the camp at Shilo he having been discharged from his enrollment in the Militia in consequence of a severe gun shot wound he received when quite young ...
3 Jul 1863 ... Sam Sharp rode my horse Rob to Crockett, and back in order to have his name stricken from the Militia roll ...
20 Aug 1863 ... Sam rode my horse Rob to Crockett and remained there for the night ...
21 Aug 1863 ... In the evening Sam returned from Crockett without having accomplished the business for which he went ...
15 Sep 1863 ... I drove my horse Rob and buggy to Crockett and back in order to be discharged from conscription but so far have failed. Sam rode my horse Gladiator to Crockett for a like purpose as myself but he also failed ...
19 Sep 1863 ... Sam Sharp rode my horse Gladiator and I drove my horse Rob and buggy to Crockett and back. while there I obtained my discharge from conscription as a Miller and Sam was also discharged as an assistant Miller ...
28 Oct 1863 ... Sam commenced making himself a pair of shoes, he being nearly barefooted, & none can be purchased these war times ...
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« Reply #3 on Apr 8, 2008, 1:05pm » | |
On or about Saturday, the 27th day of February in the year 1864, James Madison Hall penned the following words in The Journal ...
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... Sam Sharp came home on a furlough from the army. He is a member of Capt. Nunn's* Company of Cavalry ...
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*David Alexander Nunn, lawyer and Confederate Army officer, was born in Summerville, Mississippi, on October 1, 1836, the son of John and Jane (Tubb) Nunn. John Nunn was a former soldier of Andrew Jackson. David Nunn was educated at Murfreesboro and attended law school in Lebanon, Tennessee. He furthered his legal studies in New Orleans and was admitted to the bar in Mississippi in 1857. On June 8, 1858, he married Helen Williams at Macon, Mississippi, and the couple set out for Texas on their wedding day. Although they had intended to settle in Waco, they made their home in Crockett, where in 1859 Nunn was elected the town's first mayor; his wife taught school there. By 1860 they had an infant daughter, Corine. When Texas seceded from the Union, Nunn raised a cavalry company from Houston and Madison counties. The company was mustered into Confederate service on September 29, 1861, as Company I, Fourth Texas Mounted Volunteers, at Camp Sibley, near San Antonio, and assigned to Gen. Henry H. Sibley's Arizona Brigade. It took part in the Confederate invasion of New Mexico in 1862. Unfortunately, Nunn was unpopular with his men and resigned in response to their petition on February 27, 1862, shortly after the battle of Valverde. He returned to Crockett, raised a second cavalry company for service with Walker's Texas Division, was elected captain, and served with it until the end of the war. Nunn was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1875 and served as chairman of the seven-man committee that devised the public-education aspects of the state's basic laws. After the session Nunn returned to the practice of law. He died in Crockett on August 13, 1911.
The Handbook of Texas Online. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Martin Hardwick Hall, The Confederate Army of New Mexico (Austin: Presidial Press, 1978). Southwestern Historical Quarterly 15, Notes and Fragments, October 1911. Thomas W. Cutrer
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13 Jan 1864 ... Today the boys cut up and salted down the hogs that Sam killed yesterday, that is one half of the 3 that was cleaned down at Father's ... they weighed 205 lbs. Sam is at work making a pair of shoes ... Nellie was taken very sick with threatening symptoms of miscarriage ...
14 Jan 1864 ... I rode my horse Rob to Crockett and while there was again arrested by the conscript officer. when they will get through conscripting me God only knows. for one set of officers pulls down as fast as the others set up. I however after much difficulty attained another discharge, but how long it will last I cannot say. When I returned home I found Dr. Murchison and Mother in attendance upon Nellie whose symptoms are more aggravating ...
15 Jan 1864 ... In the evening while Sam & I were running the mills a file of soldiers rode up and arrested us, and forthwith shut up my mills and marched us off to Crockett like common felons. when we reached Crockett we were imprisoned in the Court house and a guard mounted over us. We were not allowed any fire or food, neither were we permitted to converse with any person. So we were kept, without any charge against us but upon mere suspicion that we were liable for conscription.
So much for our boasted rights as Southren gentlemen and for the causes which led us to sever our connection with the old government. Had I been thus treated by the Yankees I could have borne it all without complaint for I could not have expected any thing else, but coming from those who ought to be our guardians instead of our oppressors comes exceedingly hard, and not well calculated to make good and true soldiers to the Confederacy. I predict that it is but the beginning of the reign of Military despotican? and will brake down our once happy land of freedom.
I was again discharged late in the night but how long before I am again arrested God only knows. Sam however was kept in close confinement all night. Weather clear & cold.
16 Jan 1864. Today I am still in Crockett and ?Sam is still in confinement and as I said in yesterday's notes on no charge but mere suspicion that he is liable to conscription.
The reign of Military despotican? is now complete, and a man not in the Army dares not say that his life is his own or that he owned one dollars worth of property.
I left Crockett late in the evening after having failed to obtain Sam's release. upon my arrival at home I found as I have previously expected that Nellie had miscarried. this catastrophy was hastened by the cruel and hostal arrest of her husband.
If the agents of the Government think this is the proper way to make good soldiers for its armies by dragging husbands from wives who are almost at the point of death, I must humbly beg leave to differ with them.
Dr. Murchison and Mother were in attendance upon Nellie. at night Sam came home to see his wife having been released upon his parole to return on Monday night. Dr. Murchison & Mother remained all night ...
18 Jan 1864 ... Sam rode my horse Ratler to Crockett and was conscripted and put into the army of the Confederacy Sans Serimonia. I let Sam have 100$? before he left for Crockett ...
19 Jan 1864. Today I sent Sam his clothing and 100$? more by Hicks to Crockett. He was to leave Crockett this day in route for Marshall ...
20 Jan 1864 ... Sam left Crockett in route for Marshall ...
23 Jan 1864 ... Nellie is now up and entirely recovered from her late indisposition ...
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On February 17, 1864, Congress changed the age limits to run from 17 to 50, but those under 18 and over 45 were constituted a reserve for state defense and were not required to serve beyond their state's limits.
The February 17, 1864 conscription law abolished all industrial exemptions but did continue to exempt the physically unfit, ministers, editors, printers, apothecaries, physicians, hospital and asylum workers, mail carriers and government officials. This law ended once and for all the exemption for cattlemen.
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27 Feb 1864 ... Sam Sharp came home on a furlough from the army. He is a member of Capt. Nunn's Company of Cavalry ...
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David Alexander Nunn (1836-1911) was Crockett's first mayor. Sometime after February of 1862, in Crockett, Nunn raised a cavalry company for service with Walker's Texas Division, was elected captain, and served with it until the end of the war.
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28 Feb 1864. Today Sam and I rode down to Mothers and remained there for dinner.
29 Feb 1864. Today Sam made the little woman a pair of shoes ... thus I close my notes for the month of February.
1 Mar 1864 ... Sam is at work making Nellie a pair of shoes ... The little woman rode down to see Mother who is quite sick ...
3 Mar 1864 ... Mother came up and spent the day. Sam is at work making a pair of shoes for himself ...
6 Mar 1864. Today Sam & Nellie & I rode down to Mothers and spent the day ...
7 Mar 1864 ... I drove my horse and buggy down to Mr. Keen's and got him to do some repairs on the buggy and also to shoe my horse Ratler for Sam to ride to the army. Sam made Pet a pair of shoes ...
9 Mar 1864 ... After dinner Sam left to join his company which is now stationed for a short time in Crockett. Father went to Crockett with him. Mother & Roberta left for home. Nellie rode down with them, but did not remain long ...
10 Mar 1864 ... Father returned from Crockett having left Sam with his Company ... I drove down to Mothers with Nellie and while there we made a good cotton rope for Sam to take to the Army with him ...
14 Mar 1864 ... Nellie rode down to Mother's & remained all night. after she had left Sam came out from Crockett and rode down to Mother's to see Nellie ...
15 Mar 1864 ... Sam & Nellie rode up from Mother's where they left all sick. After dinner Sam left for his company in Crockett and Nellie returned to Mother's to wait upon the sick ...
19 Mar 1864 ... Sam Sharp & Billy Stewart came out from Crockett, the former rode down to Mother's to see Nellie and the latter stopped with me ...
21 Mar 1864. Today Sam and Nellie came up from Mother's ...
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21 Mar 1864. Union blockading ship attacks Velasco.
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22 Mar 1864 ... Sam left for Crockett to join his company ...
24 Mar 1864 ... Sam Sharp came out in the evening having obtained a short leave of absence ...
25 Mar 1864 ... Sam Sharp left for Crockett to join his company and before he left I let him have $100 ...
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The high point of the service of Walker's Texas Division was during the early months of 1864, when it opposed federal Maj. Nathaniel Bank's invasion of Louisiana by way of the Red River valley.
On April 8-9, it was committed with other Confederate forces in the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, halting Bank's advance on Shreveport and Marshall.
On April 10, with Thomas J. Churchill's and William H. Parson's division, it began a forced march north to intercept federal Maj. General Frederick Steele, who was moving from Little Rock to Camden, Arkansas, in cooperation with Bank's invasion from the south.
Steele reached Camden on April 15, then evacuated it on the 27th.
On the 30th he was overtaken by Confederate forces, including Walker's Division, at Jenkin's Ferry on the Saline River, fifty-five miles north of Camden. The ensuing fighting was desparate, costing the lives of two of the three brigade commanders of the division, Brig. Gen. William Read Scurry and Brig. Gen. Horace Randal. Steele completed his withdrawl to Little Rock, ending the last real threat to western Louisiana and Texas during the war.
In June Walker was directed to assume command of the District of West Louisiana and Maj. Gen. John Horace Forney took command of the division.
Initially the division was made up of four brigades ... 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th. (The original regiments of the Fourth Brigade were detached from the division shortly after its organization, and these were captured intact at Arkansas Post on January 11, 1863.
Later in the war another Fourth Brigade was reconstituted which included the sixteenth and Eighteenth Texas infantry and the Twenty-eighth and Thirty-fourth Texas Cavalry regiments (dismounted).
At the same time the Twenty-ninth Texas Cavalry (dismounted) was added to the First Brigade and the Second Regiment of Texas Partisan Rangers (dismounted) to the Third Brigade.
For a brief period, during the Jenkin's Ferry phase of the Red River Campaign, the Third Texas Infantry was assigned to the Third Brigade, but this regiment was ordered to return to Texas shortly thereafter.
The fighting service of Walker's Texas Division was less arduous than that of many similar commands in the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee. It operated efficiently, however, under peculiar difficulties unknown east of the Mississippi River and it deserved major credit for preserving Texas from federal invasion.
Through the summer of 1864, as the weight of three years of war bore down upon the tattered Confederacy, realistic people in the South lost hope for the cause. The Union now controlled the Mississippi River. Federal troops occupied much of Tennessee, together with portions of Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. The Confederate Army had eroded in strength to barely 150,000 men, and this weary and ill-equipped force faced an enemy one and a half times their number....
And suddenly in September came the words tidings of all. Atlanta had fallen. President Lincoln was urging that Northern churches proclaim a day of thanksgiving. In her diary, Mary Chestnut penned a grim notation: "There is no hope."...
More than $700 million circulating in legal Confederate paper money was worth perhaps a fortieth its face value in real purchasing power....
No longer were there any volunteers for service, and conscription was being evaded with universal hostility and thoroughness....In desperation, the government began to draft boys 14 to 18 years old to serve in a junior reserve, and men from 45 to 60 years old to make up a senior reserve....As one chronicler put it, the South was "robbing the cradle and the grave to supply Lee's army." ...
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17 Sep 1864 ... Nellie rode down to Mother's after some clothing for Sam Sharp ...
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Crockett Quid Nunc
Number 5
September 27, 1864
CLOTHING FOR THE SOLDIERS ... In obedience to special orders #221, from Dept. Headquarters, the following named officers are ordered to Texas to collect clothing and conscripts for Brigd. Gens. Maclay's and Waul's brigades, Maj. Gen. Walker's old division. It cannot be too earnestly impressed upon the friends and relatives of the soldiers of these brigades and divisions the importance of furnishing them good warm clothing to shield them from the inclemency of the coming winter.
LOCAL NEWS ... Walkers old division was at Monroe, Louisiana a few days ago. Letters for Waul's Brigade should be addressed to Jefferson. Letters for Randall's Brigade should be addressed to Marshall.
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8 Oct 1864 ... Nellie drove my John mule and the buggy and I rode hawk to Crockett and back in order to fix up and send forward Sam Sharp's clothing ...
17 Dec 1864 ... Sam Sharp arrived home from the Army on a 40 days furlough. He looks quite well but is sorely troubled with the itch. He lost my horse Ratler which is a heavy loss on me at this time particularly as another cannot be procured ...
18 Dec 1864. Today Mother & Burt came up to see Sam, and remained for dinner ...
20 Dec 1864 ... I rode up to the school house and paid ... my war taxes also those of Sam Sharp. I had to advance upon Sharp's taxes or in other words loan him $256 ...
21 Dec 1864. Today Sam Sharp and the boys went out a hog hunting but without any success ...
22 Dec 1864. Today Sam Sharp and the boys again went out hog hunting but without success. Sam however killed a fine deer ...
25 Dec 1864. Today Sam Sharp & I with the children in the little wagon, Nellie & the little woman in the buggy all drove down to Mother's, where we spent our Christmas. We had a fine dinner & a good egg nogg. We passed the day very pleasantly. Weather cloudy & rather warm.
26 Dec 1864 ... Sam Sharp rode down to Mother's and spent the day there ... A soldier stopped with me for the night ...
27 Dec 1864 ... Mother & John Connell spent the day with us. Sam Sharp rode my horse Rob to Crockett and back ...
29 Dec 1864. Today Sam Sharp and John rode down to Stubblefield's mill to see Mr. Malone in relation to his conduct on yesterday, but they were unsuccessful. McNeil's Regiment & Waller's Battallion passed by the mill and camped about 3 miles below on the Elkhart creek, at what is known as the Pridgeon field. I was troubled a great deal by the soldiers & 4 remained for dinner ...
30 Dec 1864 ... Sam Sharp & Nellie drove down to Mother's in my buggy and spent the day there ...
31 Dec 1864 ... Thus I close my jottings for the month of December and for the year 1864 which has just passed & gone and now numbered with the things that were. Whether the Almighty will spare me to chronicle the daily events of the incoming year is more than poor mortal man can foresee or know but trusting in his goodness I shall enter upon the pleasing task which is meaningful as a book of reference and may hereafter be profitable to those who have an interest in my affairs after I shall have shuffled off this mortal soil and been reaped to the bosom of my ancestors.
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« Reply #4 on Apr 8, 2008, 1:11pm » | |
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7 Jan 1865 ... Sam & I are engaged trying to ferret out the persons who broke into & robbed the mill last night, but without any success ... At night five soldiers made another attack upon the mill to rob it again, but we detected them in the act not being successful at the mill they rode over to Mr. Leaverton's and robbed Mr. Mitchell's negro man of a sack weighing about 160 lbs. so much for the soldiers of the Confederacy ...
13 Jan 1865. Today the boys are at work on the public road leading from the Mill to Crockett. Sam Sharp rode my horse Rob to Crockett & back in order to sell some cotton but failed to do so ... The little woman rode down to Mother's and Burt came home with her ...
15 Jan 1865. Today Sam Sharp & I tracked the flour that had been stolen from the mill last night into Company K of the 5th Regt. of Texas Cavalry. I made complaint to Col. Waller but got very poor comfort in fact it amounted almost to an insult thus a citizen must be treated by a lawless armed rabble called soldiers his property stolen and him insulted for presuming to ? about it ...
16 Jan 1865 ... Sam Sharp left on Riley in route for Liberty ... Nellie is still down at Mothers, that is she left for Mother's after Sam left for Liberty ... Col. Waller sent a guard to the mill who now have it in possession ...
3 Feb 1865 ... Sam Sharp left for his command ...
9 Mar 1865 ... All the women are at work in the garden. Nellie came home from Mrs. Byrds ... Sam Sharp came home from the army on a short visit ...
10 Mar 1865 ... Sam & Nellie rode down to Mother's & spent the day ... Daily & I rode around to the war widows and settled with them the amount donated by the County? ...
11 Mar 1865 ... Sam Sharp rode to Crockett & back on business ...
13 Mar 1865 ... Sam Sharp left for the Army ...
4 Apr 1865 ... Today I left home on my mule John in company with Billy Roberts in route for Liberty ...
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This was to be the final home-leaving from Houston Co. for James Madison Hall ... a little over a year later, in September of 1866, he would die ...
The 13th of March 1865 reference to Sam Sharp is the last mention of his actual physical presence ... on the 3rd of April J. M. Hall makes note of Sam's wife, Nellie, being ill, and never mentions her name again (although he frequently writes of her mother, Mrs. Beale) ...
"It would be useless and therefore cruel," Robert E. Lee remarked on the morning of April 9, 1865, "to provoke the further effusion of blood, and I have arranged to meet with General Grant with a view to surrender."
The two generals met shortly after noon on April 9, 1865, at the home of Wilmer McClean in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of all United States forces, hastened the conclusion of the Civil War.
In the weeks following, Confederate forces surrendered, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured. On April 14, President Lincoln's name was added to the list of over 1 million Civil War casualties, and the bloody era the that began four years earlier in the corn fields of Manassas, Virginia finally was brought to a close.
After the surrender, former soldiers slowly returned home. One young Southerner despaired of seeing her husband again, when he turned up in Richmond ragged, but recognizable. Remembering the difficult years during and after the war she summed up her experience:
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We had nothing on which to begin life over again, but we were young and strong, and began it cheerily enough. We are prosperous now, . . . little grandchildren cluster about us and listen with interest to grandpapa's and grandmamma's tales of the days when they "fought and bled and died together." They can't understand how such nice people as the Yankees and ourselves ever could have fought each other.
"It doesn't seem reasonable," says Nellie ... who is engaged to a gentleman from Boston, where we sent her to cultivate her musical talents, but where she applied herself to other matters, 'it doesn't seem reasonable, grandmamma, when you could just as easily have settled it all comfortably without any fighting. How glad I am I wasn't living then! How thankful I am that 'Old Glory' floats alike over North and South, now!'
And so am I, my darling, so am I!
Myrta Lockett Avary, ed.
A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865
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During March and April 1865 Walker's Texas Division marched to Hempstead, Texas where the men disbanded themselves in May 1865 ... In Early 1865 the 18th Texas Infantry was moved to Hempstead, Texas where it disbanded in May 1865 having never surrendered ... The 22nd Texas Infantry returned to Texas in March of 1865 and was disbanded at Hempstead, Texas on May 5, 1865 ...
On the 1st of June 1865, J. M. Hall notes that the little woman went to her Mother's to spend what time she remained up the Country, and consequently quit keeping the operations of the mill ... on the 24th of June he notes that the little woman arrived safe and sound in Liberty ... she doesn't return to Houston Co. again before the death of her husband in September of the following year ...
During the last year of his life, J. M. Hall often mentions the sending and receiving of letters and packages from home ... and of hearing the news of his up country relatives ...
On the 9th of March 1866 J. M. Hall says that L. E. Downes is at work purchasing for the Crockett market and that I wrote by him to Sam H. Sharp in relation to my up Country business ... it is probable that Sam is the one running the mill in Houston Co. ... but Sam is never mentioned again ...
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« Reply #5 on Mar 28, 2009, 7:28pm » | |
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Samuel Houston Sharp
Samuel H. /Sharp/
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* Born about 1839 - Texas
* Died about 1885 - Houston County, Texas
* Buried about 1885 - Hall Family Cemetery, Houston County, Texas
* Age at death: possibly 46 years old
Parents
* John M. Sharp 1800/1815-/1846
* Mahala Lee Roberts 1816-1885
Marriages and children
* Married on 11 July 1861, Liberty, Liberty County, Texas, to Mary Alexandrien Lemaire 1843-1876, with
o James Hall 1863-1936
o Infant 1864-1864
o Samuel Houston 1867-1921
o Margaret Elizabeth 1869-1935
o Ida Mae 1871-1964
o Berta Mary 1873-1955
o Willie /1876-ca 1885
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Hall Cemetery, Houston County, Texas. Ida Mae's Rememberings. 1962. My father, Samuel H. Sharp, was the son of Mahala Lee Roberts Sharp Hall. . . . My father never married again again after my mother's death, & died when I was above fourteen years old. He is buried next to & on the right side of my mother, but there is no marker at his grave. . . .
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Ida Mae Sharp Halyard Affidavit
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« Reply #6 on Sept 13, 2010, 9:06am » | |
Tuesday, April 8, 2008. I thought I found him! Decided to take advantage of the civil war database that is free for the month of April at > alexanderstreet.com <. Did NOT find him by looking Sam or Samuel or S. H. Sharp. So I tried searching for SAMUEL in Texas, and that list is rather lengthy. So I tried just the initial S for the surname with SAMUEL for the first name. Came up with the following -- notice there is no age given and no enlistment date.
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Samuel H. Stark (Confederate)
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- Enlisted as Private
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- Enlisted into H Company, 13th Cavalry (Texas)
Sources for the above information:
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
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13th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Confederate)
- Mustered out on May 26 1865
Historical notes and Reports:
13th Texas Cavalry Rgt.
Cols. John H. Burnett, Anderson F. Crawford, Lt Col. Charles R. Beaty, Maj. Elias T. Steale
The regiment was formed at Crockett, Texas in the winter of 1861-1862 with about 900 and included men from Centerville, Crockett and Madisonville. It was dismounted in the summer of 1862. It was assigned to O. Young's, Waul's brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department. It fought at Jenkins' Ferry, Ark. It disbanded in the spring of 1865.
Submitted by: John Heseltine
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Brigade, Division, Corps, and Army assignments for 13th Texas Cavalry Regiment
| From | To | Brigade | Division | Corps | Army/Department | | Feb 1862 | May 1862 | Eastern District | ... | ... | Dept of Texas | | May 1862 | Aug 1862 | Eastern District | ... | ... | Trans-Mississippi Department | | Sep 1862 | Jan 1863 | Young's | McCulloch's | 2nd | Trans-Mississippi Department | | Feb 1863 | Mar 1863 | Young's/Hawes' | McCulloch's/Walker's | District of AR | Trans-Mississippi Department | | May 1863 | Apr 1864 | Hawes'/Waul's | Walker's | District of West LA | Trans-Mississippi Department | | Apr 1864 | May 1864 | Waul's | Walker's | District of AR | Trans-Mississippi Department | | May 1864 | Sep 1864 | Waul's | Walker's | District of AR | Trans-Mississippi Department | | Sep 1864 | May 1865 | 1st TX | 1st TX | 1st | Trans-Mississippi Department |
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Decided to do a search on Samuel H. Stark, and found the following:
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Name: Samuel Hawley Stark
Sex: M
Birth: 1835 in Louisiana
Death: 12 MAR 1863 in C.S.A. Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas
Source: Newton County, Texas 1860 Census. Collected by Clovis La Fleur Oct. 2000
Dwelling #29, Family #29
S. H. Stark, age 24, m, Farmer, born in Louisiana, Property Value, $400, Personnel Estate value, $500
Julia , age 21, f, born in Louisiana
Coatny E. , age 3, f, born in Texas
Geo. D. , age 9/12, born in Texas
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Civil War Military Records
Served in Captain William Blewett's Company H, Burnett's 13th Texas Cavalry Regiment. Enlisted February 20, 1862 at age of 25 in Newton County, Texas for 12 months. Recruited by Captain Blewett.
March 1, 1862. Company Muster-in Roll, Crockett, Houston County, Texas. Joines for duty and enrolled by Capt. S. McDrakee for 12 months. No. miles to rendezvous was 115; Valuation of horse $150; equipment $15
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If the March 1862 enlistment date applies to the Stark that I thought might be our Sharp, then this is definitely not our Sam -- 'cause according to the Journal, Sam did not "join" until early in 1864.
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