Do you have any other information on Samuel Pointer? In fold3, there is a Pvt. Samuel Pointer, Co. G, 34th Arkansas Infantry. He was transferred there on July 20, 1862 but his meager records don't say from which company or regiment he was transferred.
Pointer was a planter who had about 24 slaves in 1860. His name is sometimes spelled Paynter in documents. As far as I can tell he's carried on the rolls of an Arkansas regiment that was surrendered in 1865 in North Carolina, but that may not be him. Goodspeed did a bio of him after the war. He married twice, to sisters one of whom died young. Their last name was Mooring. I believe the second wife's name was Susan. In the letter he says "Sue does not intend to have any more" [children] but they actually did. I'll see if I can find him at findagrave. The graves were moved by a distant cousin of mine because the land was being flooded. She had Confederate markers put on his and Marcellus Pointer's graves. Samuel's middle initial was R. He was the oldest son of Dr. David Pointer of Holly Springs, Miss.
Thanks for the link. I will study it today.
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That's him. I don't subscribe to Fold3 any more, but his headstone has that regiment on it.
Thanks. Co K makes sense because Capt. Weatherly was CO of that company in Dobbins' 1st Ark Cav. This unit was broken up in 1864 and blended in with other units. So at the end of the war, Samuel must have been in the 47th. I don't know where I saw the info that he was in Fagan's Cavalry.
Great picture of him in FindAGrave:
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Samuel Robinson Pointer Sr. (1828-1898) - Find a...
Captain, Co. K, 47th Arkansas Cavalry, CSA Turner Cemetery, on the Monore County, Phillips County line, is the final resting place of Capt. Samuel Pointer. He and other family members were relocated here from Lawrenceville (Monroe County) Cemetery in 2003 by Zee Porter. The relocated markers...
I inherited several photos of him and posted that one. I'm told the size of the plate dates it to the 1870s, and he looks a lot older than 25. So I guess he had his picture taken in uniform around the time he moved to Dallas. Oh, wait, this is one of my CDVs of the colonel. The tintypes were said to date to the 1870s, but the backmark on this one is from Armstrong's in Memphis. I couldn't find that gallery in the Memphis directory later than 1870.Great picture of him in FindAGrave:
COL Marcellus Pointer (1841-1909) - Find a Grave...
Entered Confederate service in March 1861, Holly Springs, Mississippi, Old Company B, 9th Miss Inf. Joined staff of Gen. Joe Wheeler July 20, 1862 at Holly Springs. Wounded five times in the war. Promoted to lieutenant colonel, 12th Ala Cav in late 1864. Surrendered at Holly Springs 23 April...
I doubt that he was in that unit, so I'm guessing some other ancestor might have been.
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