Pvt. Samuel S. Slade, CSA

Photo from Kerry Cayten at Find A Grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14792004

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Samuel S. Slade was born on June 19, 1843 in Marion County, Mississippi. He was the son of Hezekiah Slade and Helena Victoria Taylor. Samuel Slade served in the Civil War with the Jeff Davis Sharp Shooters, 7th Mississippi Volunteers at the age of 20. He was wounded when a Yankee miniball struck him between the eyes. His hat absorbed most of the impact. When his hat was removed, the miniball fell out. The wound left a scar. Samuel was a blacksmith and a miller. Samuel married first Arrietta Davis Moody on December 12, 1864. Samuel married second Eurmia Wardene on March 18, 1901. Samuel married third Sarah Eliza Graham on March 30, 1906. Samuel S. Slade died on May 24, 1926 at age 82 at the home of his daughter, Sallie, in Purvis. He was buried in Slade Cemetery, Lamar County, Mississippi. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sladej/nc/p2729.htm

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Samuel Slade, age 20, enlisted as a Private in Captain Henry Pope's Company (Jeff Davis Sharp Shooters) 7th Mississippi Infantry, September 27, 1861 at Bay St. Louis, transferred to 1st (Chalmers') Battalion Mississippi Sharp Shooters** June 25, 1862, slightly wounded in head in front of entrenchments, Brigades first position, at Murfreesboro December 2,1862, wounded September 20, 1863 and sent to hospital, dropped as a deserter August 30, 1864

[Ed. note - he very well may have returned later to the unit, absence for a certain length of time resulted in being recorded as a deserter. Subsequent company muster rolls may not have survived to be included in these compiled service record files]

• *This company subsequently became Company C, 9th Battalion Mississippi Sharp Shooters http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs62x/mscwmb/webbbs_config.pl?md=...
  • ****************************************************************** "Slade Ancestors of Kenneth K. Slade", 1987, pg. 3, states that Samuel "was one of 4 brothers that fought in the Civil War; two were killed and two were wounded. Grandpa Samuel was in the Company D, 7th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. he was wounded when hit between the eyes with a "Minnie Ball". His hat is credited with absorbing most of the impact. He lived, married, and sired 9 children."

http://www.thelynchhomepage.freeservers.com/Slade-Tolar/A1.htm#i94

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Throughout [Lamar County] are numerous small springs which supply a constant flow of waters to the smaller streams. Other than these we have only one spring of note, Sawed Horn Spring in the southeastern part of the county, so named for Sam Slade who was first to homestead the land on which the spring is situated. Mr. Slade was wounded in a rather peculiar manner at the Battle of Shiloh by being struck with a spent minie ball. The bullet struck the nose causing a deformity which made one think of a sawed horn steer; thus the spring derived its name.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mslamar/wpa/topography.html