Samuel Watkins

Citation Text: Watkins, Samuel Sam Private-Enlisted in Co. L, 3rd Arkansas Infantry, at Latonia, Arkansas, September 25, 1861; transferred to Co. A, 3rd Arkansas Infantry, September 25, 1862; promoted fourth corporal, 1862; promoted third corporal, 1863; promoted second corporal; promoted first corporal, 1864; captured at Chafin s Farm, Virginia, September 29, 1864; confined at Point Lookout, Maryland; exchanged at City Point, Virginia, February 13, 1865; born in Mississippi, January 8, 1841; died in Arkansas, April 15, 1914; married Elizabeth Marian Grant in Ashley county, January 2, 1867; widow filed Arkansas pension application #26826 from Garland county, August 10, 1925; listed in Ashley county 1860 census; occupation farmer; listed in 1911 Arkansas Confederate census at Wilmot, Arkansas; brother of Private Lemarcus Watkins.