★★★ Pinckard, Lucius

Lucius Pinckney Pinckard

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Born: August 4, 1841

Birthplace: Macon County, Alabama

Father: William Pinckard 1806 – 1843
(Buried: Tuskegee City Cemetery, Tuskegee, Alabama)​

Mother: Sarah Spratling Calloway 1807 – 1878
(Buried: Tuskegee City Cemetery, Tuskegee, Alabama)​

Wife: Frances Louise Graves 1843 – 1909
(Buried: Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia)​

Children:

Frances Louise "Fannie" Pinckard Magbee 1865 – 1948​
William Graves Pinckard 1868 – 1908​
(Buried: Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia)​
Lillian Pinckard 1871 – 1938​
Katherine Helen "Kate" Pinckard Billingsley 1872 – 1936​
Ruth Sarah Pinckard Ewing 1874 – 1938
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Thomas Howard Pinckard 1878 – 1895​
Lucius Pinckard 1879 –​

Education:

1861: Student at University of Alabama​

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1862: Adjutant for 14th Alabama Infantry Regiment​
1862: Lt. Colonel of 14th Alabama Infantry Regiment​
1862 – 1865: Colonel of 14th Alabama Infantry Regiment​
Wounded during the Battle of Salem Church​
1863: Regimental Commander at the Battle of Gettysburg​
1863: Led 316 Men into the battle of Gettysburg​
1863: Wounded and Captured during the Battle of Gettysburg​
1864: Exchanged in Prisoner Exchange​

Occupation after War:

Planter and Sheriff in Marion County, Alabama​
Insurance Agent in Atlanta, Georgia
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Died: September 11, 1909

Place of Death: Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Age at time of Death: 68 years old

Burial Place: Unmarked Grave Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia

His Obit. Mentions him as another name. He currently has no headstone, so if anyone knows how to help this Colonel get one, I think it would be nice to see him receive the honor.

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Pinckard entered the University of Alabama in 1859, but like many others South and North, he left in 1861 to join the army. (source: A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama 1831-1901, comp. by Thomas Waverly Palmer (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Published by the University, 1901, p. 149)

See also a short biography on Pinckard: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, by Thomas M. Owen, vol. 4, pp. 378-379. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044051736783&view=1up&seq=378
 

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