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Samuel V B Seals (abt. 1843 - 1864)

Samuel V B Seals
Born about in Alabamamap
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Died at about age 21 in Camp Douglas, ILmap
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Biography

Samuel V B Seals was b. ca. 1843-1844 Alabama[1], son of Wilburn Seale and Elizabeth Stracener

Military

Sergeant Samuel Seals served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: Mar 20, 1862
Side: CSA
Regiment(s): Co D, 30th Regiment, Alabama Infantry
Samuel served in the Confederate army, mustering in with the 30th Regiment, Alabama infantry, Company D, at Camp Curry near Talladega Alabama 20 Mar 1862, stating his age as 18, enlisting “from St. Clair county.” [2] [3]

The 30th Alabama infantry took part in fights at Tazewell and Cumberland Gap, and later at Port Gibson Mississippi, May 1, 1863. They later fought at Baker’s Creek, then Vicksburg. Samuel was listed as a carpenter with the quartermaster in Vicksburg, and was there when the army surrendered to Gen'l U S Grant on July 4, 1863. [4]

Samuel was paroled[5], but rejoined the service in Chattanooga, serving with the 30th Alabama Infantry which fought at Rocky Face and Resaca in Georgia, moving on to Tennessee for the winter. [6]

Samuel, by then a sergeant, was captured again near Nashville, Tennessee, Dec 16, 1864. Captured prisoners, including Samuel were taken from there to the Military Prison in Louisville, Kentucky, and then transferred to the infamous Camp Douglas in Illinois., on 24 Dec 1863.


Death

Samuel contracted smallpox and died 29 Jan 1865, 5 days after arriving at Camp Douglas, Illinois, buried in Oakwood Cemetery near Camp Douglas which is near Chicago. [7]

Timeline

1850 Federal Census, St Clair Alabama "Elizabeth A, age 26"[8]
• Wilburn R Seales, age 28, farmer, born Alabama, cannot read or write
• Elizabeth A, 26, born Alabama, cannot read or write
• Samuel V, 8, born Alabama
• James, 6, born Alabama
• Lewis A, 4, born Alabama
• Jonathan, 1, born Alabama

1860 Federal Census, St Clair AL, Coosa Valley, p57, household #380, [9]
•Wilburn Seal, 39, born Alabama
• Elizabeth, age 38, born Alabama, cannot read or write
• Samuel V B, age 17, born Alabama
• James, age 14, born Alabama
• Lewis A, age 12, born Alabama
• Elizabeth, age 7, born Alabama
• Jasper N, age 2, born Alabama

Sources

  1. by census and military ages, no specific birthdate known (2020)
  2. Muster Roll of the 30th Alabama Infantry. Private in Co H,  Captain Woodward’s
  3. See further details of the 30th Alabama Regiment below, from Confederate History, Vol VIII, p152
  4. Personal Papers of J A R Bennett, Co C 7 Florida Vols in Compiled CSA records. On roll of Prisoners captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi 4 Jul 1863
  5. 7 July 1863, Compiled Service Records, CSA
  6. History of the 30th Alabama Infantry accessed 15 Feb 2020
  7. Compiled service records, CSA, Prisoners of War at Nashville, TN, 16 Dec 1864; Prisoner of War Roll at Louisville,  Kentucky prison by 21 Dec 1864;  and sent the same day to Camp Douglas Illinois; Report of prisoners who died between 15 Jan and 31 Jan 1864, Samuel V Seale died of smallpox Jan 29, 1864.
  8. "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch: 12 April 2016), Elizabeth A Seals in household of William R Seals, St. Clair county, St. Clair, Alabama, United States; citing family 348, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  9. "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch : 13 December 2017),

See also:

THE THIRTIETH ALABAMA INFANTRY
The Thirtieth was organized at Talladega in April, 1862, and reported for service at Chattanooga.It was later brigaded under General Tracy with the Twentieth, Twenty-third, Thirty-first and Forty-sixth Alabama regiments. It took part in the fights at Tazewell and Cumberland Gap, and went into Kentucky; then being sent to Mississippi, fought at Port Gibson, May 1, 1863, with severe loss, making a brilliant record there and at Baker's Creek; it was captured when Vicksburg fell, after having suffered untold hardships.When paroled, it recruited and joined the army near Chattanooga. It fought at Rocky Face and at Resaca, and was in the van of the army in the Tennessee campaign of the fall and winter of 1864.At New Hope, May, 1864; Atlanta, July 22nd, and Jonesboro, the regiment lost heavily; but it suffered still more severely at Nashville, whence it formed the rear guard in returning to Duck river.The regiment was transferred to the Carolinas, fought at Kinston and Bentonville, March 19, 1865, surrendering at last at Greensboro, with about 100 men.This regiment was noted for the number of its field officers killed. Its field officers were Col. Charles M. Shelley, who was made brigadier-general and who afterward served in the United States House of Representatives; Col. James K. Elliott, wounded at Bentonville; Lieut.-Cols. Paul Bradford, who resigned; A. J. Smith, who was killed at Vicksburg; John C. Francis, killed at Rocky Face; Thomas Patterson, killed at Atlanta, and William H. Burr; Maj. William Patterson, who was wounded at Baker's Creek and resigned.Capt. Henry Oden was killed at Vicksburg, Captain Peacock at Bentonville, Capt. David Anderson at Baker's Creek, Capt. William S. McGhee at Atlanta, and Capt. Jack Derrill near Atlanta.Source: Confederate Military History, vol. VIII, p. 152





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