Marshall Napolean Tatum
Simeon L. Tatum, the son of Olen
Tatom and his first wife Sarah Ann Smith,
was born 26 August, 1838 in the Turnbull Creek region of Bladen
County. He served in the Confederacy during the Civil War. He
died in service along with 3 of his brothers. They were Jonathan
S. Tatum, Hanson Tatum, and Nicholas Grey Tatum. Brothers Richard
W. Tatum and Marshall Napolean Tatum survived.
This Civil War information on Simeon L. Tatum comes from Bladen County Heritage North Carolina Volume
1, copyright 1999, article 806 by Agnes Cain
Melvin: "...Simeon L. Tatum (26
August, 1838 - 2 May, 1863), who enlisted in New Hanover County
at the age of twenty-two on 15 June, 1861, was present or
accounted for until killed at Chancellorsville, Virginia, served
in Company A, 18th Regiment...."
The above photograph of Marshall Tatum was cropped from this
photograph of him and his brother, Simeon L. Tatum.
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