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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: January 25, 2019
Caption: Col. Samuel Lumpkin, CSA
Additional Description: Col. Samuel Lumpkin CSA (1833-1863) commanded the 44th Georgia Infantry when severely wounded in the leg at Gettysburg. The leg was amputated in a field hospital and Lumpkin was transported in a wagon train of wounded to Hagerstown, where he fell into Union hands. Confined at the Hagerstown Female Seminary Hospital, he contracted typhoid fever and died on September 18, 1863. Initially buried in the Presbyterian Church Cemetery on South Potomac Street, he was reinterred 50 years later in Washington Confederate Cemetery. Close-up of photo on marker
Submitted: January 28, 2019, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p462417
File Size: 1.168 Megabytes

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