Thursday, June 28, 2012

Samuel G. Talbott, student 1861-1862

Talbott, cousin to Allan and Charles Talbott, enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 13th VA Battalion Light Artillery on March 22, 1862. He was  hospitalized in May 1864 at Chimborazo in Richmond, VA for "morbi cutis," or a skin disease. He was paroled in Richmond, VA on April 18, 1865.

By 1880 he was a manager in a tobacco factory in Richmond. He died November 27, 1891 and is buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery.

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