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Submitted: 2/4/14 • Approved: 5/15/23 • Last Updated: 5/20/23 • R14593-G14591-S3
Samuel
LIEUTENANT COLONEL CSA
Companies F & S 28 Regiment Virginia Infantry
General & Staff Officers Corps, Division & Brigade Staffs CSA
Civil War Confederate
July 29, 1821 - August 31, 1879
Born in Georgia
Son of Robert Burton & Elizabeth Pickard Paul
Died of pneumonia
Mary
September 29, 1833 - September 11, 1907
Born in Alabama
Daughter of Joshua S & Nancy Dees Shamburger
Married June 21, 1849
Lieutenant Colonel Paul was appointed on September 6, 1861. On December 15, 1861, he was listed as at home on sick furlough for 30 days. On or about July 1864, he was transferred to General Beauregard's staff. His name appeared on a list of staff officers serving at Headquarters of General Beauregard paroled under terms entered into on April 26, 1865. He was paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, on May 1, 1865. His name appeared on a Roll of Prisoners of War remaining in Richmond, Virginia under heading "Amnesty Oath administered to paroled prisoners" dated May 8, 1865. His name appeared on another list of Paroled Prisoners remaining in Richmond, Virginia, also dated May 8, 1865.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, The National Archives, Publication M324, Roll 0746; Publication M382, Roll 0043; and Publication M331, Roll 0194
Contributed on 2/4/14 by bridges1026
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