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- From page 169 of: "Alabama, Her History, Resources, War Records and Public
Men": "Cherokee County":
Samuel King McSpadden of this county, was born near McMinnville, Tennessee,
November 21, 1823. In 1842, he walked to Alabama. He worked in Lebanon,
Portersville, and Talladega until 1850. Having read law by the help of Hon.
S. F. Rice, he was licensed as an attorney in 1848. Two years later he came to
Centre, and began practice with George S. Walden. In 1856 he was selected
brigadier general of militia, and a year later was chosen state senator over
Col. Clifton; and re-elected in 1860 over A. L. Woodlief. Volunteering as a
private, he was appointed major of the Nineteenth Alabama at it's organization.
He participated at Shiloh, and served through the Kentucky campaign. In October
1862, he became Colonel. He led the nineteenth at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga,
Missionary Ridge, Dalton, and Resaca. In the latter battle he was captured, and
remained on Johnson's Island till the closing hours of the war. In 1865 he was
elected chancellor, and held the office until displaced by Congress in 1868. He
then practiced law in Centre.
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